In 1968, Harvard undergraduate student Katiti Kironde won Glamour magazine’s “Best Dressed College Girls” contest. That dated terminology has since been updated to “College Women of the Year.”
As part of the win, Kironde graced the cover of the August 1968 issue of Glamour College. She was the first African-American woman given the cover of a U.S. fashion magazine.
Glamour recently reconnected with Kironde for an episode of their podcast Work Wives. During the conversation with associate producer Kateri Benjamin, Kironde recalls how she personally made the white shirt featured on the cover and notes that progress has been made with regards to fashion magazines celebrating a broader spectrum of human beauty:
“We’re not where we need to be.
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