Autumn Breon explaining the Definition of Nude - Video

Autumn explaining what nude means to her, and the history of the term 'nude'.
Autumn wears the Naked Bandeau in Caramel: nubianskin.com/products/bandeau

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Until 2015, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary defined nude as having the color of a white person's skin. Finding bras, stockings, and tights that actually match brown skin has been unnecessarily difficult for centuries. For example, tights were introduced to ballet

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in the late 18th century to create the illusion of a woman's bare leg while still providing coverage. These women dancers were white, so flesh-colored was interpreted as pink. That didn't change until the early 1970s when the Dance Theater of Harlem principal dancer,

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Llanchie Stevenson, would wear brown tights over traditional pink tights to match her skin tone. The director loved it so much, he had the dancers dye and spray paint their shoes and tights to shades of brown to match their skin. When I first started looking for body suits,

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bras, and stockings to wear for my own performances as a performance artist, it was difficult for me to find pieces in a shade of brown that matched my skin, until I found Nubian Skin. Nubian Skin was founded by Ade Hassan in 2014, when she was frustrated by the lack of color choices

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in the lingerie industry. Nubian Skin launched some of the first undergarments in deep shades of brown exactly 100 years after the very first modern bra was patented. When I found Nubian Skin, I finally had what I needed to complete the costumes for my shows.

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Thank you, Nubian Skin, for creating space for us to feel comfortable in our own skin, for us to feel comfortable in our own skin, in art and everyday life.