Ebony Fashion Fair (Johnson Publishing Company)

CTL-E-1299 · Institution · other · 1958–2009

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Annual traveling fashion show created in Chicago in 1958 by Eunice Walker Johnson; became the world's largest traveling fashion show, exposing Black audiences — especially in segregated cities — to haute couture while platforming Black models and designers and raising millions for Black charities. Founder of Fashion Fair Cosmetics (1972).

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-035; source research type(s): institution.

Sources

Spotlight on Lake, "Hindman announces Property from Ebony Fashion Fair: The Final Show"
Spotlight on Lake (Hindman catalog); GWU Media Relations exhibition brief
Searchable Museum, "Johnson Publishing Company"; NPR Illinois, "In Memoriam: 'Ebony' Matriarch Eunice W. Johnson"

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