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Standing in front of her white peers inside a segregated “no Blacks” hotel in L.A., the elegantly coiffed Hattie McDaniel broke the colour barrier at the 12th Academy Awards when she became the first Black person to win an Oscar for her performance as Mammy in. Although her role as a house servant is argued to have perpetuated many racial stereotypes, her win cannot be denied as an immense success story within a representation-starved industry.
Grace Jones’s imprint on style is everlasting. Her geometric haircut, club-kid makeup and avant-garde fashion sense embodied the opulent disco culture of the ’70s and ’80s.“Now, who flat top rules in ’89?” rapper Big Daddy Kane sang in his 1989 track “Warm It Up, Kane.” His sense of style — high-top fade hairstyles, chunky chains and four-finger rings — set a number of late-’80s and early-’90s hip-hop trends.
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