Walking with the Muses: A Memoir

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An exciting account of the international adventures of fashion model Pat Clevelandone of the first black supermodels during the wild sixties and seventies. New York in the sixties and seventies was glamorous and gritty at the same time a place where people like Warhol Avedon and Halston as well their muses came to pursue their wildest ambitions and when the well began to run dry they darted off to Paris. Though born on the very fringes of this world Patricia Cleveland through a combination of luck incandescent beauty and enviable style soon found herself in the center of all that was creative bohemian and elegant. A walking girl a runway fashion model whose inimitable style still turns heads on the runways of New York Paris Milan and Tokyo Cleveland was in high demand. Ranging from the streets of New York to the jet-set beaches of Mexico from the designer retailers of Paris to the offices of Diana Vreeland here is Clevelands larger-than-life story. One minute shes in a Harlem tenement making her own clothes and dreaming of something bigger the next shes about to walk Halstons show alongside fellow model Anjelica Huston. One minute shes partying with Mick Jagger and Jack Nicholson the next shes sharing the dance floor next to a man with stark white hair an artist the world would later know as Warhol. One moment shes idolizing the silver screen sensation Warren Beatty years later shes deciding whether to resist his considerable amorous charms. In New York she struggles to secure her first cover of a major magazine. In Paris shes the toast of the town. And through the whirlwind of it all she is forever in pursuit of love truth and beauty. A page-turning memoir of a life well lived Walking with the Muses is a book you wont soon forget.