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The first black (Afro-American) model for the Hart Modeling Agency. The year was 1968. I was
asked to create a fashion show and model at the Boston Copley Plaza Hotel as my first assignment for the agency. The theme was "The Age of Aquarius". It was so cool, hip and different than the typical fashion shows of the day. I believe it started a new trend for fashion shows in the future. I am very proud of this accomplishment, because I had never been in a fashion show, but I knew it had to be avant-garde. The show got great reviews as being cutting edge in the Boston trade magazines. Buyers from coast to coast where there as well. I have no idea why Mrs. Abbott, the owner, decided to put her trust in me. I guessed she thought that I could produce some WOW to the runway. I did not think I let her down.
The irony of this event was several months earlier I walked into her office with a Polaroid photo of myself and said I that I would like to become a model. She politely dismissed me. I did not have a portfolio and I was dressed in jeans. I returned several months later, with a portfolio and dressed to the hilt. She didn't even know that I was the same person that she interviewed several months earlier and I never told her about our first meeting. She put me under contract on the spot. That's the irony of my modeling career. The next thing I was doing was producing a fashion show. Go figure.
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