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Barbara Summers

(1944-2014)
American fashion model, writer and educator (1944-2014
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Barbara Summers (September 6, 1944 – November 2014) was an American writer and educator who had also had a long and successful career as a fashion model, working for 17 years with Ford Models, one of America's top agencies. Her 1998 book, Skin Deep – the story of Black models in America and abroad – is a definitive work on black women in the modeling industry. for which she spent more a decade interviewing fashion professionals on three continents to record their experiences,

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Born Barbara Summers
6 September 1944
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Died
1 November 2014 (aged 70)
Zodiac Virgo
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