Fashion's 'first black supermodel' Beverly Johnson recalls brains AND beauty mattered at casting calls in 1972

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Milestone: Ms Johnson made history as the first black woman to appear on Vogue in August 1974 

Beverly Johnson tells her tale on landing this iconic cover.

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