Dolores Guinness, photographed at her family’s apartment, near a painting of her mother Gloria. Photo: Philippe Halsman/Magnum Photos Style Inspiration : Gloria Guinnes : la donna più elegante del mondo. Nasceva il 27 agosto Gloria Guinness, icona di stile mai dimenticata. Il buon gusto innato e la vita alquanto avventurosa ne fecero un mito che ancora oggi non smette di affascinare. Socialite, icona d’eleganza e contributing editor di Harper’s Bazaar dal 1963 al 1971, Gloria Rubio Alatorre nacque a Veracruz, Messico, il 27 agosto 1912. Un’aura di mistero avvolge molte fasi della sua vita: si dice che da giovanissima lavorò in un night club, prima di sposarsi, per ben quattro volte. La Guinness fu socialite, icona di stile ed editor di Harper’s Bazaar Gloria Guinness a Palm Beach, 1972 Gloria Guinness ritratta nella sua villa sulla spiaggia di Acapulco, Messico, febbraio 1975 Secondo Eleanor Lambert, Gloria Guinness era la donna più elegante al mondo Affascinanti i suoi matrimoni, rigorosamente blasonati: dal conte Franz-Egon von Fürstenberg-Herdringen nacque la figlia Dolores; successivamente convolò a nozze col principe Ahmed Abdel-Fettouh Fakhry e in quarte nozze con il capitano Thomas Loel Guinness, magnate dell’omonima birra ed appartenente ad una ricchissima famiglia di origine irlandese. Tra i suoi amanti vi furono l’ammiraglio David Beatty e il politico britannico Duff Cooper, che la descrisse come una donna dalla passionalità indomabile. Gloria Guinness apparve nella International Best Dressed List dal 1959 al 1963 Numerose le sue donazioni al Victoria & Albert Museum, che comprendono diversi abiti da sera: capi di Cristóbal Balenciaga, Jeanne Lafaurie, Marcelle Chaumont, Antonio del Castillo, Hubert de Givenchy, Yves Saint Laurent, André Courrèges, Christian Dior. Altri capi di Balenciaga ed Elsa Schiaparelli vennero invece donati al Costume Institute del Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York. Gloria Guinness ritratta con la figlia Dolores Brillante editor per Harper’s Bazaar, celebre è un suo aforisma apparso nel numero di luglio 1963 del celebre magazine, in cui afferma che “l’eleganza risiede nel cervello, nel corpo e nell’anima. Gesù Cristo è l’unico esempio che abbiamo di un uomo che le possedeva tutte e tre nello stesso tempo”. Gloria Guinness si spense nella sua casa in Svizzera nel 1980, all’età di 68 anni. Ma il suo stile rimarrà per sempre come un mirabile esempio di eleganza. La Guinness fotografata da Cecil Beaton per Harper’s Bazaar, 1966 Definita da Eleanor Lambert la donna più elegante al mondo, dal 1959 al 1963 Gloria Guinness fu presenza fissa nella International Best Dressed List, ideata dalla Lambert nel 1940. E dal 1964 conquistò il podio, superando, in fatto di stile, teste coronate e stelle del cinema. Predilesse abiti Balenciaga, Elsa Schiaparelli, Yves Saint Laurent, Hubert de Givenchy, Chanel, Christian Dior, Valentino Garavani, Antonio del Castillo, Halston e Roger Vivier per le scarpe. Fu tra le prime ad indossare i pantaloni capri proposti da Emilio Pucci e poi sdoganati da Jackie Kennedy. Apparve in riviste come Vogue e Harper’s Bazaar, di cui fu editor; posò per Cecil Beaton, Richard Avedon, Horst P. Horst, John Rawlings, Toni Frissell, Henry Clarke e fu ritratta da artisti del calibro di René Bouché, Kenneth Paul Block e Alejo Vidal-Quadras. D-Art.it
The daughter of an American family whose name means "filthy rich" in common parlance, was also the center of a vicious custody battle, a muse, a mother, and a wife several times over. She endured unimaginable tragedy. She left her mark in the arts, and fashion, and today her famous son does his best
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Having been in the public eye since she was a child, Gloria Vanderbilt has a long history of fabulous appearances.
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Enjoy a 70s revival with our Gloria Top. An easy-fit, collared top with billowy sleeves finished with frills, the gently elasticated waist will flatter and accentuate in all the right places.
Having been in the public eye since she was a child, Gloria Vanderbilt has a long history of fabulous appearances.
Enjoy a 70s revival with our Gloria Top. An easy-fit, collared top with billowy sleeves finished with frills, the gently elasticated waist will flatter and accentuate in all the right places.
The answer in short: rich, glamorous women whose lives are dramatized in the new series Feud: Capote vs. the Swans.
Karl Lagerfeld captures Kati Nescher as she channels fashion icon (and Harper's Bazaar editor) Gloria Guinness.
Gloria Guinness was a Mexican socialite and fashion editor. She was a friend of Truman Capote and considered her one of his Swans.
“Chic? It is absolutely innate – I was born with it. Chic cannot be taught.”-Gloria Guinness to W magazine Once referred to as "The ...
One of the highlights from our Withit Design Tour in NYC was meeting Wendy Goodman, the author of The World of Gloria Vanderbilt Before reading this book, I didn't know much about Gloria Vanderbilt except for a mishmash of fashion spreads and tabloid stories. Withit gave all the design tour attendees our books but I would have bought it after the discussion with Wendy Goodman. "My mom is a survivor, but she has none of the toughness that term often implies. She has strength, great stores of it, but she has refused to develop a layer of thick skin to protect herself. She remains vulnerable. It is a difficult and sometimes painful choice. She wants to remain open---open eyes, open mind, open heart. It's cost her, but she has succeeded. There is no one I know who is so open to the new: new experiences, new opportunities, new love, even if it means loss. She truly believes the best is yet to come, that great adventures are out there, just around the corner. She may have been born into a world that no longer exists, but she lives in a place about to happen." ---- excerpt from the special foreword, by Anderson Cooper, a fitting tribute to his mother. Annie Leibovitz, 2006 Vanity Fair my signed copy Gloria driving a pedal car in Paris. Her mother had moved the family to Paris in 1926 after Reginald's (her husband) death. Gloria led a nomadic life in Europe until she returned to America in 1932. photo by Horst P. Horst At 17, in Beverly Hills wearing a tabletop dress by Howard Greer. Tabletop dresses looked good from the waist up when stars were photographed sitting in restaurants and nightclubs. Richard Avedon, 1956 10 Gracie Square Richard Avedon, 1960 outfit by Mainbocher February 1969 cover Town and Country Francesco Scavullo Horst P. Horst, 1970 outfit by Adolfo Gloria portrayed the gyspet style early on. Her bedroom with Wyatt Cooper at 45 east Sixty-seventh Street was one of the most famous rooms in modern decoration. Gloria covered every surface of the room with a collage of quilt pieces, including the lacquered floor. Growing up, nanny Dodo and grandmother Naney made up what Gloria called "the Caravan". The Caravan was home to three--Dodo, Naney, and me. It was steamer trunks, packing and unpacking on ocean liners, in hotels, on trains, on rented houses in Paris, Cannes, England. It mattered not where as long as we three were together." Juliana Force, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's assistant and the first museum director of Whitney Museum of American Art, influenced Gloria's style. The floral pattern on the floor, accomplished with many coats of lacquer over fabric inspired the patchwork quilt room. Wyatt and Gloria Cooper with sons Carter and Anderson Jack Robinson, 1972 Summertime Jack Robinson, 1972 gingham on gingham Summertime, Long Island Gloria Vanderbilt, 1976 the original designer jeans Beekman Place Woven into these beautiful and glamourous photos are lovely stories and lessons well told by the author. Here's Gloria's thoughts after surviving the tragedy of her son, Carter's, suicide: "Don't give up, don't ever give up, because without pain there cannot be joy, and both are what make us know we are alive. You have the courage to let the pain you feel possess you, the courage not to deny it, and if you do this, the day will come when you wake and know that you are working through it, and because you are, there is a hope, small though it may be, a hope you can trust, and the more you allow yourself to trust it, the more it will tell you that although nothing will ever be the same, and the suffering you are working through will be with you always---you will come through, and when you do you'll know who you really are, and someday there will be moments when you will be able to love again, and laugh again, and live again. I hope this will come true for you as it has for me." Gloria and Anderson with the portrait of Gloria's mother by Dana Pond in Paris, 1923 Gloria Vanderbilt book signing at Ralph Lauren's 888 Madison Ave store Wendy Goodman, Ralph Lauren, GV, Anderson Cooper Wendy Goodman She also co-wrote another must have tome for the design library, Tony Duquette and is the editor of Home Design Guide, New York Magazine Ms. Goodman's take away lesson: "But the one thing that is evident in Gloria Vanderbilt's life is that her strength and resolve and invincible warrior spirit didn't come from the wasteland of imagining "what if." Her incredible journey has been built on dealing with "what is," and the hard work and courage it takes to transform the uncontrollable in life into something positive and enriching. Andre Breton's observation that "childhood is the only reality" is the mountain that has to be scaled in life. Some make it over and others do not. " These powerful words resonated with me. I have never let my not so rosy childhood or any circumstances thereafter deter me from living life to the fullest. Anything is possible. I have always been a fan of Wendy Goodman's Home Design Guide features in New York Magazine. Meeting her was a real delight and honor. here with Betty Lyn Eller, Regenia Payne, Amy Huff Do you have any practical advice for creative individuals, or anyone, in fact? I think you trust yourself, love yourself, and all will be well. I think it’s important to have an image of what you’re striving for and what you’re working towards—what you’re hoping to be. I want to be the best I can be for as long as I can. --taken from Psychoanalyzing Gloria Vanderbilt on Vanity Fair
Having been in the public eye since she was a child, Gloria Vanderbilt has a long history of fabulous appearances.
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Gloria Vanderbilt, 1950s.
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Known as ‘the poor little rich girl’, she survived family tragedy and a sensational court case to become an actor, designer and fashion icon. She died on Monday aged 95
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Having been in the public eye since she was a child, Gloria Vanderbilt has a long history of fabulous appearances.
Portrait by Fred W. McDarrah of American Socialite Gloria Vanderbilt,February 1968.
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Gloria Steinem during Gloria Steinem's 50th Birthday Party - May 23, 1984 at Waldor-Astoria Hotel in New York City, New York, United States.
Having been in the public eye since she was a child, Gloria Vanderbilt has a long history of fabulous appearances.
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Giving thanks to the woman whose words pushed a movement forward.
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The model, muse, heiress, fashion icon, designer, painter, businesswoman, and mother led one of the most fascinating and kaleidoscopic lives of the past century. At age 90, she told T.J. Wilcox, she was still looking for her next adventure.
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As the news breaks that the American heiress, socialite and artist Gloria Vanderbilt has died at the age of 95, a look back at New York magazine's marvellous tour of her Manhattan apartment.
