Providing a backdrop for a show which looked towards African-American performer Josephine Baker and her years in Paris in the 1920s for inspiration – Chiuri called her an ‘embodiment of modernity’ – ...

There was no shortage of epithets for Josephine Baker, the St. Louis-born polymath who took Paris by storm when she arrived there in 1925, aged 19, to headline “La Revue Nègre,” a show of all ...