Nefertiti: Why her image still inspires, 3,000 years on
CNNCNN — One hundred years ago, in a courtyard at the Neues Museum in Berlin, the world came face to face for the first time with one of its most enduring beauty icons: Queen Nefertiti. Dominique Maître/WWD/Penske Media/Getty Images “Nefertiti’s bust is so perfect; she’s so self-possessed,” Dr. Cheryl Finley, a professor of art history at Spelman College in Atlanta, told CNN. It’s something that attracts us all.” Following the bust’s discovery in the 1920s, Nefertiti quickly became an “it” girl. “It also enables people to draw their own power from it.” Model Naomi Campbell pays tribute to Nefertiti in Azzedine Alaïa’s Fall 2017 runway collection. At the height of her career, Erykah Badu wrapped her locs in the shape of the queen’s headdress; Aretha Franklin also wore “Nefertiti head wraps”.
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