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Luna. American model and cover girl. Active in the 1960s and 1970s, she was one of the first Afro-American women to model and pose for the big fashion magazines. She was preceded, in January 1953, by Dolores Francine Rheney, who was discovered by the Roman tailor Ferdinandi and who made her début on the runway of the Sala Bianca in Florence thanks to him. Luna was a star in the ateliers of Paco Rabanne and Courrèges and on the runways of the Italian high-fashion ready-to-wear that was emerging just then. Fellini gave her a small role in Satyricon. She married the photographer Ezio Cazzaniga, had a daughter, and died very young.