Charlene Dash applies makeup before a fashion shoot, 1969. A pioneering Black model, Dash later went on to appear in the famous Battle of Versailles fashion show in 1973. To learn more about her, check out: (📷Yale Joel/LIFE Picture Collection)
Yale Joel The LIFE Picture Collection/ShutterstockOriginal caption: “Charlene Dash, 20, was signed a year ago by the Ford Model Agency, one of the most prestigious, and is already the top money-maker among black models. She has done six TV commercials, the most recent for Clairol cosmetics .
Dash, who went back to school after quitting the modeling world and ended up getting her master’s degree, went on to work for the Department of Education. In 2017, she told LIFE what it was like to live through that time:I’d had a job with Shell Oil Company and I went to school at night, at Hunter College. And one of the women who worked in keypunch one day came to work in pants. She had a pantsuit on. This was. How could you come to work in pants? She said, “Well, I handed in my resignation.
It wasn’t that I was doing anything special, but it was the right time at the right place and I didn’t even know what I was wandering into. It was wonderful. I have good memories.and the art director said that they’d even checked the whole concept with the Black Panther Party, which I thought was funny, but they wanted to make sure that they didn’t say anything wrong. Everybody was very nervous and very cognizant that they were doing this and they were going to do it right.
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