Sidney Poitier was known as the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, and he also was known for his classic men’s fashion.
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1968
Image Credit: AP Oscar winner Sidney Poitier, walks hand-in-hand with one of his at Rome’s Fiumicino airport on July 11, 1968.
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1972
Image Credit: WWD Sidney Poitier (L) and Brock Peters (C) attend the “Harlem Homecoming” benefit performance at Loew’s Victoria Theater in New York City on Nov. 13, 1972.
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1973
Image Credit: WWD Sidney Poitier attends a “Raising a Racquet” celebrity tennis match, benefitting the Manhattan Women’s Political Caucus, at the 7th Regiment Armory in New York City on Feb. 13, 1973.
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1974
Image Credit: WWD Sidney Poitier (R) participates in the third annual Robert F. Kennedy Pro-Celebrity Tennis Tournament at Forest Hills Stadium in New York on Aug. 24, 1974.
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1977
Image Credit: WWD Joanna Shimkus and Sidney Poitier attend the American Film Institute 10th Anniversary Gala at the White House d at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 17, 1977.
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1978
Image Credit: WWD Sidney Poitier and Joanna Shimkus attend a party at Carl Foreman’s Beverly Hills home on May 11, 1978.
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1983
Image Credit: WWD (L-R) Freddie Fields, Sidney Poitier, and Joanna Shimkus attend “WarGames” screening on the MGM lot in Culver City, Calif., on May 23, 1983.
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1988
Image Credit: WWD Actor Sidney Poitier and actress Joanna Shimkus at the Armani dinner party and presentation of Giorgio Armani Spring 1988.
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1996
Image Credit: Fairchild Archive/Penske Media (L-R):Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett and Sidney Poitier at the 12th biennial Carousel of Hope gala, hosted by Barbara and Marvin Davis, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Oct. 27, 1996.
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2009
Image Credit: Fairchild Archive/Penske Media Sidney Poitier (L) and Joanna Shimkus attend Vanity Fair’s 15th annual Oscars party at Sunset Tower Hotel.
