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Jean Claude Baker

A New York Institution -- Jean-Claude Baker Tells Stories From West-Berlin

Lia Petridis Maiello | Posted 12.10.2012 | New York
Read More: Chez Josephine, Berlin, Orson Wells, Jean-Claude Baker, Josephine Baker, Berlin Wall, West-Berlin, New York City, New York News
Lia Petridis Maiello

The heavy door to Chez Josephine in New York's theater district conceals one of the last places of its kind in the metropolis: the bohemian New York, the New York of Jean-Claude Baker.

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

Freddie Gershon | Posted 09.19.2011 | Home
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, Home 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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How Josephine Baker Helped Save Post-War French Fashion (PHOTOS)

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
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 | New York
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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The Dazzle of a Rising Star

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
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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