Pat Cleveland
Model
Patricia Cleveland is an American model and one of the first African American women to achieve success within the fashion industry as a catwalk and print model.
Her career began in the 1960s when she was scouted by Carrie Donovan, an editor at Vogue, and has been photographed by notable photographers such as Irving Pen, Richard Avedon, Andy Warhol and was briefly a muse of Salvador Dalí. Cleveland has continued to work within the fashion industry launching her own modelling agency and featuring in a number of documentaries and television programmes.
In more recent years she has walked for brands such as Moschino and Zac Posen, starred in the 2015 Lanvin ad campaign and in 2016 debuted her book, Walking with the Muses: A Memoir where she reflects on her life in Harlem and early modelling career.
Patricia Cleveland is an American model and one of the first African American women to achieve success within the fashion industry as a catwalk and print model.
Her career began in the 1960s when she was scouted by Carrie Donovan, an editor at Vogue, and has been photographed by notable photographers such as Irving Pen, Richard Avedon, Andy Warhol and was briefly a muse of Salvador Dalí. Cleveland has continued to work within the fashion industry launching her own modelling agency and featuring in a number of documentaries and television programmes.
In more recent years she has walked for brands such as Moschino and Zac Posen, starred in the 2015 Lanvin ad campaign and in 2016 debuted her book, Walking with the Muses: A Memoir where she reflects on her life in Harlem and early modelling career.
