Josephine Baker

The Roaring 20s Appears In Times Square

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Times Square, Vaudeveille, Video, Chorus, Art Production Fund, 1920s, Broadway, Roaring 20s, Slideshow, Female Artists, Josephine Baker, Kiki Smith, New York, Arts News

These days Times Square is possibly avoided more often than sought out, defined by swarms of tourists, overpriced trinkets and all-consuming advertise...

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PHOTOS: Look Who Made TIME's 100 Fashion Icon List

Huffington Post | Julee Wilson | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Michael Jackson, Bv-Fashion-and-Beauty, Iman, Michelle Obama, 2012 TIME 100, Time Magazine 100 Fashion Icons, Beverly Johnson, Naomi Campbell, Beyonce, Slidewide, Hair-Beauty, Robin Givhan, Josephine Baker, Black Voices News

Each year TIME magazine rolls out their highly anticipated list of the year's top influencers, but before they feed our curiosity with that group of i...

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A Brief History of Loving or Leaving America

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: John McCain, Ernest Tubb, Ted Nugent, Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, Weathermen, Todd Palin, Merle Haggard, Toby Keith, Rick Perry, Walter Winchell, Josephine Baker, Video, Dennis Terry, Rick Santorum Dennis Terry, Politics News
Michael Sigman

"America: Love It or Leave It" exemplifies the "either-or" (or "black and white") fallacy. Like another '50s/'60s slogan, the anti-Communist "Better dead than red," there are obviously more than two choices.

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Sade at Honda Center: Style as Enlightenment

S.X. Rosenstock | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Smooth Operator, John Legend, Orange County, Andrew Hale, Stuart Matthewman, Michelle Obama, Soul, Kate Betts, Sade Adu, Music, Cleo Laine, Audrey Hepburn, Christine McVie, Jazz, Halle Berry, Honda Center, Soldier of Love, Norah Jones, Anaheim, Greta Garbo, Paul S. Denman, Yukimi Nagano, Feist, Josephine Baker, Sade, Sophie Muller, La Around Town, Concert Reviews, Los Angeles News
S.X. Rosenstock

Sade's show at Honda Center in Anaheim August 30 was such a triumph of visual and sonic beauty, I started to wonder if pure gorgeousness could fix the economy or make political parties get along.

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Black Heritage Tours Highlight Paris' African-American History (VIDEO)

Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Paris Travel, International Destinations, France Travel, Josephine Baker, Black Heritage, Destinations, African American, Black Tourism, Paris, Travel News

Tours that explore Paris' black history promise to explore the link between African-Americans and the City of Light. Stops on the tour's route hig...

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James and The Giant Peach Meets Josephine Baker and Bernadette Peters...

Freddie Gershon | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Benj Pasek, Chez Josephine, Douglas Carter Beane, Broadway Musicals, Jean-Claude Baker, Broadway JR Festival, Broadway, James and the Giant Peach, Hugh Jackman, Follies, Warren Carlyle, Spiderman, Bernadette Peters, Kim Gigsby, Musical Theatre Education, Rent, Josephine Baker, Music Theatre International, Sister Act, Kennedy Center, Education News
Freddie Gershon

This past January at the Broadway JR. Festival in Atlanta, approximately 2,500 young people from grade schools with their teachers and adjudicators we...

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PHOTOS: Meet Elsa Schiaparelli, Coco Chanel's Fiercest Rival

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Let's Bring Back, Fashion, Style News, Style, Elsa Schiaparelli, Fashion Designers, Designer, Fashion History, Lesley M. M. Blume, Josephine Baker, Icons of Style Series, Lilly Dache, Slidefullscreen, Style News
Lesley M. M. Blume

This lavishly creative designer was once as revered and famous as Coco Chanel, who referred to her rival as "that Italian artist who makes clothes." Schiaparelli collaborated on pieces and collections with artists Salvador Dalí, Jean Cocteau, and Alberto Giacometti.

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PHOTOS: Lilly Daché, Iconic Hat Maker To The Stars

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Let's Bring Back, Style News, Fashion Designer, Style, Lesley M. M. Blume, Icons of Style Series, Josephine Baker, Slidefullscreen, American Fashion History, Lilly Dache, Style News
Lesley M. M. Blume

Over the next two weeks, you will become reacquainted with some of the twentieth century's seminal tastemakers, designers, and muses -- many of whom are now unjustly fading from public memory.

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PHOTOS: Josephine Baker, A True Style Icon

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Style News, Let's Bring Back, Fashion History, Lesley M. M. Blume, Icons of Style Series, Style History, Style Muses, Icons of Style, Josephine Baker, Slidefullscreen, Style News
Lesley M. M. Blume

*Scroll down for the full slideshow* In 2007, we launched on this site ...

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So, I'd Like to Thank

Freddie Gershon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sex and the City, Josephine Baker, Broadway, Passion, Teachers, Promises, Entertainment News
Freddie Gershon

Last weekend I had the privilege of meeting eight young teachers selected out of a large group of teachers who participated in the annual Junior Music Festival in Atlanta earlier this year.

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Visible Lives: Celebrating LGBT Pride 2010

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: E. Lynn Harris, Homo-Harlem, Faggot, Dr. Annette Gordon-Reed, Samuel Delaney, Homo-Harlem a Film Retrospective, Jayne Russell, Henry B. Roa, Harlem Pride, Spike Lee, Richard-Bruce-Nugent, State Senator Bill Perkins, Sage Harlem, Trance, Barnes & Noble, Fred Barney Taylor, James Earl Hardy, 1969, Hotel Theresa, Drag Ball, Stanley Bennett Clay, Josephine Baker, Gay Pride, Stonewall, Marlin Riggs, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

What matters sordid wealth or brutish might? Bright day, dark night, Gay or straight, black, brown or white, Tall or short, Blond or brunet, Voluptuo...

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How Josephine Baker Helped Save Post-War French Fashion (PHOTOS)

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Style News, Balenciaga, Balmain, Jean-Claude Baker, Paris, Fashion History, Dior, Jean Cocteau, Style, 1920s, Style Icon, Josephine Baker, Lesley M. M. Blume, Fashion, Fashion News, Fashion Icon, Chez Josephine, Paul Poiret, Style News
Lesley M. M. Blume

I spoke to Baker's son about how Josephine became a savior of the House of Dior, who really invented that deliciously scandalous string of bananas, and how she became a "guest editor" at Vogue (without the editors ever knowing it).

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Chez Josephine, the World's Best Restaurant!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bruce Weber, Claudette Law, My, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Jean-Claude Baker, Lynn Whitfield, Cordelle-Cleare, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, State Senator Bill Perkins, World's Best Restaurant, New York, Whoopi Goldberg, Michael MC COLLOM, Leonard-Hanna, Chez-Josephine, Curtis Quentin Phelps, Lou Willard, Dale and Ann Dobson, Astor, Vanderbilt, Edna Ratner, Phyllis Briley, Rocky Baron Boler, Terry Wynn, Eva Tuholka, Josephine Baker, Baryshnikov Jesseye Norman, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

'Is it really all you suggest?' "Certainly it's a 'fun' place, with more than decent food. It's in jolly surroundings, with a zany ambiance, that...

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Black History Month Events In New York

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepoll, David Ruggles, Brooklyn Museum, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Thelonious Monk, Underground Railroad, Charles Mingus, Reggae, Thomas Allen Harris, Josephine Baker, Wynton Marsalis, Barack Obama, Gentrification, Black History Month, New York News

As we enter the second week of Black History Month, New York City is offering a host of activities to participate in. There are lectures, concerts, fi...

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The Last of the Lost Generation in Paris Under the Nazis

Charles Glass | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Lost Generation, Vichy, French Resistance, World War II, Nazis, Josephine Baker, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Paris, Books News
Charles Glass

The idea for Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation came to me one day while wandering through Paris and wondering what I'd have done when the Nazis took the city.

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The Runways of Yesterday: 9 Designers Worth Revisiting

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Style News, Madeleine Vionnet, CoCo Chanel, James Galanos, Marc Jacobs, Salvador Dali, Jean Harlow, Derek Lam, Oleg Cassini, Bob Mackie, Mary McFadden, Jackie Kennedy, Jason Wu, Chanel, Fashion Week, Lilly Dache, Calvin Klein, Marlene Dietrich, Donna Karen, Jean Cocteau, Style, Carmen Miranda, Thakoon, Lesley M. M. Blume, Josephine Baker, Paul Poiret, Greta Garbo, Elsa Schiaparelli, Fashion, Raco Rabanne, Nancy Reagan, New York Fashion Week, Diane Von Furstenberg, Joan Collins, Style News
Lesley M. M. Blume

Fashion often looks to the past for inspiration. This fall, history is in great evidence: surrealist flourishes from the 1940s abound; shoulder pads and neons from 1980s saturate clothing lines at all levels.

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Letter from Paris: Josephine Baker Back in Paris (This Time as a Man)

Beth Arnold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josephine-Baker, Gentry Lane, The New Yorker, France, Gentry De Paris, Casino De Paris, Burlesque, Brian Scott Bagley, Janet Flanner, Dita Von Teese, Paris, World News
Beth Arnold

It was a beautiful bang of an evening with swishy chorus girls covering luminous curvy skin with a parade of splendid costumes. Modern burlesque diva Dita Von Teese headlines this extraordinary show at the historic Casino de Paris.

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The Dazzle of a Rising Star

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nicolle Rochelle, Jean-Claude Baker, Josephine Baker, Chez Josephine, New York, Paris, Lynn Whitfield, L?Opéra-Comique, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

New York has a way of continually affording one with opportunities to ask questions like, "What becomes a legend most?"

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