Mildred Harris

After Ana¿s: a Second-hand Memoir Mildred Harris

She was impulsive, she wasbeautiful, and her path was littered with discarded suitors. As one of the toprunway and fitting models in New York's fashion industry in the 1940s and1950s, she worked with leading designers--Jacques Griffe, Geoffrey Beene, and others. Her career as a model waslong and successful, but her heart was in her second career as a self-taughtpainter. These dual careers took herabroad-Paris, Mexico, Lebanon. Hers is a very personal insider's view of theworlds of art and fashion. People and incidents, seen through the artist'sobservant eye, are described with warmth and humor. She met Gonzalo More shortlyafter his break with Anas Nin,an encounter which brought into her life great insight, great happiness, andeven greater turmoil. Attempting to deal with the contradictions of thissituation, added to the strong opposition of her family, influencedmuch of what she did, where she went, who she went with. Her story has never been writtenbefore. Nobody else knows it all. She wanted to tell it to the author, then asked her to tell it to you.