What does it mean to be resilient? We all have different interpretations. Rebellious, remarkable, enduring, effervescent, irrepressible. Pat Cleveland’s legacy can be found in any one of these descriptors. She was one of the first Black women to break into the runway scene in the late 60s. She slept on Karl Lagerfeld’s floor in the 70s while she boycotted US Vogue, waiting for it to put a Black girl on the cover before she returned to work in America. She partied with Warhol, had tea with Dali, dated Jagger, was proposed to by Muhammad Ali (she broke off the engagement when he wanted her to be more conservative in her outfits), beat cancer, and was there for the Battle of Versailles, but she is more than the sum of her…
