The Legendary Eunice Johnson

(April 4, 1916 – January 3, 2010)

At the ripe old age of 93, fashionista extraordinaire Eunice Johnson, the widow of Ebony magazine founder John Johnson and a fashion maven who ran thousands of traveling runway shows aimed at black audiences from 1961-2009, has died.

As not only the widow of the late publisher John H. Johnson who ran two of the longest running black oriented magazines in this country (Ebony and Jet), Eunice Johnson was a maven in her own right both creating and running the pioneering Ebony Fashion Fair Shows and Ebony Fashion Fair Cosmetics Line well into her later years.