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Cleveland was one of 36 models to walk the runway for the event. Of the 36 models, ten were black, an unprecedented number for the era. [14] The gala later was chronicled in the 2015 Pulitzer Prize winning The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History by Robin Givhan. [15]
Dorothea Church – African-American pioneering model. She was the first successful black fashion model in Paris. Pat Cleveland – African-American model of the 1970s who was the muse of Halston, Yves Saint Laurent and Stephen Burrows.
Pat Cleveland: Jean-Louis Guégan [88] №587 October December ... Pat Cleveland, first black model with a solo cover of L'Officiel, September 1971; References
Oscar de la Renta stated "it was the black models that had made the difference." Pat Cleveland, Bethann Hardiason, Billie Blair, Jennifer Brice, Alva Chinn, and Ramona Saunders, were among the many black models that helped Team America win and stun the French competition. This competition made the black model a worldwide phenomenon.
In the mid to late 1970s, he became known as a high fashion model. He was briefly engaged to fashion model Pat Cleveland. [10] He also worked as a dancer and as a frequent figure in New York City nightclubs and society life. [11] In her 2016 memoir Walking with Muses, Cleveland said
Explores the life and career of Bethann Hardison, following her journey as a model, modeling agent, and activist. Whoopi Goldberg, Zendaya, Naomi Campbell, Tracee Ellis Ross, Fran Lebowitz, Tyson Beckford, Pat Cleveland and Stephen Burrows appear in the film. [4]
Pat Cleveland, another prominent African-American model, has also been described as one of the first black supermodels, in particular by former editor-at-large for American Vogue André Leon Talley, in an article for the June 1980 issue of Ebony magazine, [53] and again in his 2003 memoir.
Lady Bird Strickland (also Lady Bird Cleveland or Ladybird Cleveland) (July 24, 1926 – June 2, 2015) [1] was an American painter of African, Cherokee and Irish heritage, [2] whose work primarily depicts the African-American experience, focusing on aspects of life from slavery and the civil rights movement to entertainment and culture to President Barack Obama's inauguration.