“If I had a job, I had a big, tall bag - no wheels in those days - with dark shoes, light-colored shoes, all sorts of jewelry, wigs, and hairpieces,” she says of lugging everything she’d need for the day along with her. As Boyd added fashion spreads for magazines like Vanity Fair and Vogue to her resume, she also helped to popularize beauty trends of the time, including curtain bangs and cut crease eyeshadow - looks that Boyd recalls she often came up with herself. “I had to work hard, going around to photographers’ studios and showing them my portfolio,” Boyd says of how she began landing jobs with leading fashion photographers of the time David Bailey, Terence Donovan, and Brian Duffy. “My agent would phone me last thing in the afternoon and tell me my jobs for the next day, and my diaries would be quite full. I thought, ‘I must get out, I must try and be independent.’ So I got a job and shared a flat with about five other girls,” Boyd shares of moving to London in the early ’60s.įirst working at an Elizabeth Arden counter, Boyd’s big break came when a client recommended her to a modeling agency. “I was just so determined to get out of this environment where my mother and my stepfather were splitting up and I had five brothers and sisters who, whatever I did, would all follow me. Growing up in Kenya and England, Boyd didn’t initially have ambitions to become a model, but as a teenager, she seemed to crave adventure. Pattie Boyd today with her new photo book. “But then they wanted photographs of me, and I thought, ‘Oh my God, really?’ I’m a bit shy about it.” The end result tells the story of Boyd’s life through a mix of professional modeling shots and personal letters and diary entries (plus a few photos taken by Boyd, of course), all woven into a gorgeous coffee table book. “I thought initially that it was going to be photographs that I had taken,” she says while sipping a green juice in her London flat, her dog Freddie close by. And that’s exactly what My Life In Pictures, her new book, sets out to do - even though Boyd, now 78, was a bit hesitant in the beginning. But as a trendsetting model of the ’60s turned photographer, Boyd’s career is certainly worthy of its own spotlight. Having inspired songs like George Harrison’s “Something” and Eric Clapton’s “Layla” and “Wonderful Tonight,” she found herself at the center of a love triangle that would go down in music history (Boyd married Harrison in 1966 and later, Clapton in 1979). Pattie Boyd is undeniably one of rock and roll’s most iconic muses. A Pattie Boyd self portrait with George Harrison in their rose garden, 1968 Pattie Boyd Archive
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