The fashion world experienced a huge loss when supermodel Naomi Sims died in 2009 after a long battle with breast cancer. She was the "first Black supermodel" and graced the cover of Ladies Home ...

Naomi Sims as seen in The New York Times, Fashions of the Times, Aug. 27, 1967. This is WESA Arts, a weekly newsletter by Bill O'Driscoll providing in-depth reporting about the Pittsburgh area art ...

In addition to setting trends, Black women like Madame C.J. Walker, Naomi Sims, Christina Jenkins, and more used their creativity to create ingenious beauty products, tools, and styling methods.

When the photographer Gösta Peterson shot a relatively unknown model named Naomi Sims for the cover of the Fashions of the Times (a special section of The New York Times Magazine) in the summer ...