“Naomi was the first,” 1974

 “Naomi was the first,” the designer Halston told The New York Times in 1974. “She was the great ambassador for all black people. She broke down all the social barriers.”

Photo Yale Joel

Naomi Sims was the first African-American (black) model to appear on the cover of Ladies’ Home Journal in November 1968

Photo Yale Joel

Naomi Sims is from 1983

Former supermodel Naomi Sims

poses for a publicity portrait circa 1983.

 (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Naomi Sims New York, 1975

A pioneer of the top black models, Naomi Sims was the first color model to the A New York Times fashion supplement of 1967 and that of 1969. Life – New York, 1975

Photo Anthony Barboza

Naomi Sims 1975

Naomi Sims  New York 1975

Photo Anthony Barboza

Naomi Sims – June 23, 1969 NYC

Naomi Sims – June 23, 1969 NYC

Photo Gosta Peterson

Naomi Sims and unidentified model,1969

Naomi Sims and unidentified model,1969

Photo William Helburn

Naomi Sims 1967

 

Naomi Sims outside Metropolitan Museum. Date 1967

Client The New York Times 

Photo Gosta Peterson