// // ]]> Dorothea Towles was the first African American model to work for Haute Couture houses in Paris. Dorothea Towles was Born on July 26, 1922, in Texarkana, Texas. Towles traveled to Los Angeles, California after her mother's death in the early 1940s, where she enrolled herself in the Dorothy Ferrier Modeling School where she was the first black student. In 1949, Dorothea followed her older sister Lois to France. After Arriving in Paris, she fell in love with the city and found t[...]