{"id":38,"date":"2020-01-09T21:02:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T21:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/eleanor-lambert\/?p=38"},"modified":"2020-02-25T20:29:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T20:29:44","slug":"black-fashion-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/eleanor-lambert\/black-fashion-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Fashion Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleanor Lambert was an avid supporter of black fashion models, designers, and publications. She hired black models for high profile fashion shows such as the 1959 Moscow Exhibition and the 1973 Versailles Fashion Show, which she organized. She selected her client Stephen Burrows as one of the five designers to represent American fashion at Versailles. Lambert wrote about the designer Jon Haggins in 1972 in her syndicated newspaper column, citing him as the \u201cfirst black fashion designer to make a name on Seventh Avenue.\u201d In 1961, Lambert\u2019s client Pauline Trig\u00e8re hired model Beverly Valdes, making her the first black Seventh Avenue fit model. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/eleanor-lambert\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2020\/02\/BlueStarDingbat-10px-new.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-108\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleanor Lambert was an avid supporter of black fashion models, designers, and publications. She hired black models for high profile fashion shows such as the 1959 Moscow Exhibition and the 1973 Versailles Fashion Show, which she organized. She selected her client Stephen Burrows as one of the five designers to represent American fashion at Versailles&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/eleanor-lambert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/eleanor-lambert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/eleanor-lambert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/eleanor-lambert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/eleanor-lambert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/eleanor-lambert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/eleanor-lambert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/eleanor-lambert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/eleanor-lambert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/eleanor-lambert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}