Luna

LunaDonyale Luna started acting in her native Detroit, where a New York photographer spotted her leaving a TV rehearsal; in 1964, she walked into the offices of Harper's Bazaar--she now claims that she was only 15 at the time--and wound up on the January 1965 cover, thus becoming the first black girl to make it big as a fashion model. Then things tightened up--"For reasons of racial prejudice and the economics of the fashion business," says Richard Avedon--who shot her for one issue of...