One of the most consequential models of the 20th century can’t remember a specific moment when she felt beautiful.
“When youre a warrior, you aint got time to be worrying about things like that,” said Bethann Hardison, “A warrior isnt beautiful.”
Hardison spoke with me via Zoom recently about Invisible Beauty, the new documentary that she made with Frédéric Tcheng about her life and work as a model, agent, and most of all, advocate for racial diversity in modeling, creating a path for people such as Naomi Campbell, Tyra Banks, Beverly Johnson, and Iman.
She’s donned all kinds of sartorial artworks and made them sing. But as for feeling beautiful, or remembering her outfits? There were few moments of note, save, perhaps, for her first and second weddings.
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“Im not insecure about what I look like,” Hardison said. She just never experienced seeing herself in the mirror and feeling a gush of self-satisfaction.
“Oh, no, Ive never had that,” Hardison said. “No, my feet are too I dont normally wear makeup. Im not even caught up on things like that. Id never thought I
Bethann Hardison
Renowned model Bethann Hardison was once the favorite of the best fashion houses in the United States and Europe. She transformed herself from a model to a businesswoman.
Hardison gained notoriety after her appearance at the Battle of Versailles fashion show and became one of the high-profile models.
Net Worth
Bethann Hardison is estimated to have a net worth of $2 Million which she has amassed from different sources. She has explored many different domains in her professional life.
Hardison mainly gained amounts from her modeling career. She was one of the high-profile models who was the choice of top American and European designers. Additionally, she has also been a producer and an actress.
Hardison owned a modeling agency bearing her name where she scouted many new coming models. She earns a good amount of sum as a businesswoman. In addition to this, Hardisons son is speculated to have a net worth of $2 Million.
Bethann is living a happy and comfortable life in Brooklynn, New York with all this huge fortune.
How Old Is Bethann Hardison?
Hardison blessed her parents with her arrival on the 30th of September, She was raised in
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Kousha Navidar: This is All Of It. I'm Kousha Navidar filling in for Alison Stewart. Welcome back. The NAACP Image Awards are this week. The televised awards ceremony will be held this Saturday. Today, we're bringing you recent conversations we've had on the show with some of the winners and nominees. Let's get back into it with a look at the documentary film Invisible Beauty, which reflects on the contributions of fashion trailblazer Bethann Hardison and her fight for black models. It won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary this Wednesday. Here's Alison's conversation with Hardison, who co-directed the film alongside Frédéric Tcheng.
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Alison Stewart: Bethann, what is one of your earliest memories of fashion or style, something or someone you saw and you just knew that style?
Bethann Hardison: Oh, that's the neighborhood. I grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant and I think that seeing the men on the corners talking stuff, looking at their double-pleated pants, wingtip shoes, their shirts. No matter what it was, everybody looks cool. What they didn't, there were a lot of fun. It was just a great moment.
About
Bethann Hardison - former model, advocate, and founder of the modeling and management agency that bears her name - has long been a groundbreaker in the world of fashion. She has helped guide the careers of some of the most prominent models in recent times and through her decades of advocacy work has challenged and helped change common notions of beauty by consistently championing diversity in the fashion industry.
early CHILDHOOD
Born and raised in New York, Bethann, a latchkey kid, grew up in pre-gentrified Bedford-Stuyvestant. She was raised by her mother and grandmother who were domestics. At the age of 12 she went to live with her father, a supervisor at the Albany Housing Projects in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and a respected orthodox Muslim Imam who was an advisor to Elijah Muhammad as well as a mentor to Malcolm X. After graduating from George W. Wingate High School where she ran track and became the first Black cheerleader, she attended New York University’s Art School and the Fashion Institute of Technology. Despite not completing her degree at either institution, FIT’s merchandising program pointed her toward a career in fashion.
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