Ok so i'm slowly falling in love with Donyale Luna. Well actually, I lie, theres nothing slow about it. I saw one picture and I was hooked.
I was doing some image scouting for BBS thread about fashion when I found her. I'd heard about her before but i'd never actually seen the legendary vogue cover.It was love at first sight, I can't remember the last time I saw a model with such elegance.

However, I do have some slight issues with her character. She seems to have been trapped in some sot of internal struggle about her ethnic origin. The New York Times described her as "secretive, mysterious, contradictory, evasive, mercurial, and insistent upon her multiracial lineage -- exotic, chameleon strands of Indigenous-Mexican, Indonesian, Irish, and, last but least escapable, African.".

She was also asked if she felt her appearance in Hollywood films would help the plight of ethnic minorities during the civil rights struggle, to which she replied. "If it brings about more jobs for Mexicans, Asians, Native Americans, Africans, groovy. It could be good, it could be bad. I couldn't care less.".

She also made her love of drugs publicly known., specifically LSD. In one interview she said that"I think it's great. I learned that I like to live, I like to make love, I really do love somebody, I love flowers, I love the sky, I like bright colors, I like animals. [LSD] also showed me unhappy things -- that I was stubborn, selfish, unreasonable, mean, that I hurt other people."

This aside however, I think that she was defiantly a remarkable girl. An icon of our times.

Here are some more pictures of here that I think are absolutely gorgeous. Picture 1 Picture 2 Picture 3