In 'Donyale Luna: Supermodel,' a pioneer of the industry gets her long overdue acknowledgement.
familiar with Luna, given that she was the first Black model to coverDonyale Luna is the invention of Peggy Ann Freeman, a Black girl born in 1945 Detroit, the second of three daughters in a middle class family. She moved from the midwest to New York City in the fall of 1964 and by January 1965, an illustration of her appeared on the cover of, her first “first” in what would be a number of color barrier breaking moments. The next year, she secured the March cover of.
This two-pronged grief is one that Luna’s daughter, Dream Cazzaniga, has carried with her as long as she can remember. Cazzaniga, who is an executive producer on the film, was only 18 months old when Luna died. The result of Cazzaniga’s partnership with director Nailah Jefferson is as much an excavation of Luna’s career and an indictment of a prejudiced industry as it is a tender portrait of a mother-daughter relationship that transcends time.
Though the film seeks to deliver the most comprehensive account of Luna’s life on record, it exhibits an intentional lack of resolution. Jefferson wanted the project to function as the jumping off point for a cultural reexamination of Luna’s legacy, and she felt it was crucial not to give the impression of all loose ends being tied up nicely. “[Luna] didn’t get her due, and I think for a lot of the people in the film, they never got to say their goodbyes,” Jefferson says.
Still, Luna’s achievements in the face of the world she lived in merit a retrospective such as this. “Ahead of her time” is a phrase that often gets thrown around when looking back on the stories of a figure like Luna, a euphemistic way of acknowledging a spectacular, singular talent wasted on the vast majority of their contemporaries. But the time may be right in this day and age for people to truly feel Luna’s magic.
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