Pat Cleveland

ABOUT PAT CLEVELAND

Fashion model who rose to stardom in the 70s for becoming one of the first African-Americans to achieve great success as a print and fashion model. She worked with some of the biggest names in the industry, including Diana Vreeland , Yves Saint Laurent and Oscar de la Renta .

She graduated from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and studied design at New York's High School of Art and Design.

In 1974, she became the first African-American model to appear on the cover of Vogue.

She married model and photographer Paul van Ravenstein, with whom she has children named Noel van Ravenstein and Anna Cleveland .

She served as a muse for painter Salvador Dali .