On Her Own: Patti Labelle
Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, 1987
PATTI LABELLE HAS seen it all lived through every phase of black American pop from the doo-woppy girl groups of the early 1960s to the synthesised dance music of today, not to mention sported every kind of get-up from Woolworth's pastel dresses to Claude Montana jackets.
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