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Josephine Baker: Captured in Wire

Posted in alexander calder, ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, FASHION, & DESIGN, Josephine Baker, PEOPLE, tagged alexander calder, Josephine Baker, La Revue Negre, wire sculpture on October 15, 2019| 1 Comment »

Josephine Baker was already the toast of Paris when American artist Alexander Calder arrived there in early 1926. Her show, “La Revue Negre,” which opened at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees on Oct. 2, 1925, was an instant hit. The finale of the evening was a “Charleston Cabaret,” whose featured number became known as “La Danse […]

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Josephine Baker: Viva la Résistance!

Posted in Ernest Hemingway, Josephine Baker, Pablo PIcasso, PEOPLE on October 3, 2018| 7 Comments »

Ernest Hemingway called her “the most sensational woman anyone ever saw.” Pablo Picasso painted her, seeking to capture her alluring beauty, saying she had “legs of paradise.” She was Josephine Baker, the glamorous cabaret star that took Paris by storm during the Jazz Age of the 1920s and 30s. In her signature stage act, she […]

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Josephine Baker: The Nefertiti of Now

Posted in Brigitte Helm, Diana Vreeland, Dr. Martin Luther King, Josephine Baker, MUSIC & DANCE, Pablo PIcasso, PEOPLE, POLITICS & GOV'T, tagged 1930s Paris society, biographies of African-American women, Brigitte Helm, Diana Vreeland, Josephine Baker, Josephine Baker and Martin Luther King, Josephine baker and the banana skirt, Josephine Baker and the March on Washington, josephine baker's cheetah, josephine baker's leopard, josephine baker's pet, L'Atlantide, Pablo Picasso, pictures of Josephine baker, Vionnet on July 1, 2014| 9 Comments »

Before her career as editor and columnist at fashion magazines Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, Diana Vreeland, like other society women of her class, ran a little lingerie shop near Berkeley Square in London. She often traveled to Paris where she would buy her clothes, notably, Chanel. She remembered one such trip in the summer of […]

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