Yara Shahidi, Anya Taylor-Joy and Baz Luhrmann were among the celebrity guests at Dior's Spring Summer 2023 presentation in Paris, which took inspiration from the legendary singer. By Allyson Portee ...

Paris is reviving the spirit of U.S.-French entertainer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker with a new mural. Fifty years after her death, Baker now gazes out over a diverse neighborhood of ...

“Josephine Baker was a trendsetter and the trend, in my opinion, was Blackness,” award-winning ballet soloist Gabe Stone Sheyer said poignantly about the legacy of the renowned dancer 100 years after ...

She entertained Europe between the wars and still inspires artists and activists now, as a new exhibition in Berlin shows. A 1920s portrait of Josephine Baker by ...

Josephine Baker, the world’s first black superstar, was a master of image and reinvention. In the 1920s, she twerked for Paris audiences before there was such word as “twerking.” Later, the ...

One hundred years ago, Josephine Baker left America and changed the world. Before Beyoncé filled stadiums, before Rihanna built a billion-dollar brand, and before Tina Turner took control of her story ...

Exclusive: Chez Josephine was a piece of famed performer Josephine Baker’s story that is not widely known, but for which, a quiet war was waged and lost In artistic Montmartre, Paris, a stone’s throw ...

Flapper fever has officially swept the Essence.com offices. From super-short, spit-curled haircuts to wide-eyed, heavily lashed eyes, we’re so into the hair and beauty trends made popular by 1920s-era ...

3 ICYMI: Meet the Next On Stage: Season 6 Finalists The narrative thrust is a simple set up of Josephine Baker after a show during her 1975 run at the Bobino which celebrated her 50 years in ...

Doucouré will write and direct the upcoming feature film, set to begin production in 2023. Josephine Baker is coming back to the big screen. Maïmouna Doucouré, the director behind controversial film ...

The Flame of Resistance: The Untold Story of Josephine Baker’s Secret War. By Damien Lewis. Quercus; 496 pages; £21.99. To be published as “Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy” ...