International Best Dressed List
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The International Best Dressed List was founded by fashionista Eleanor Lambert
Eleanor Lambert
Eleanor Lambert Berkson -Background:Born in Crawfordsville Indiana. She attended the John Herron School of Art and the Chicago Art Institute to study Fashion. She started at an advertising agency in Manhattan New York, dealing mostly with artists and art galleries...

 in 1940 as an attempt to boost the reputation of American fashion at the time.

People who have been on the list include from A to Z:

The International Hall of Fame: Women

  • Natividad Abascal, former model, former Duchess of Feria; Madrid (1984).
  • Marella Agnelli
    Marella Agnelli
    Marella Agnelli, born Princess Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto is an Italian socialite, style icon and wife of Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli...

    , international socialite, philanthropist, co-founder of the Pinacoteca Agnelli art museum, widow of the former Fiat chairman; Turin (1963).
  • Mme. Hervé Alphand
    Hervé Alphand
    Hervé Alphand was a French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States, from 1956 to 1965. -Life:...

     (Nicole), wife of the former French ambassador to the U.S.; Paris (1963).
  • H.R.H. Countess Arco (Marie-Beatrice), socialite, businesswoman; Munich and Greenwich, Conn. (2000).
  • Contessa Donatella Asta, Italian representative for the World Monuments Fund; San Marco (1995).
  • Adele Astaire
    Adele Astaire
    Lady Charles Cavendish , better known as Adele Astaire, was an American dancer and entertainer. She was Fred Astaire's elder sister. Her birthdate was often given as 1897 or 1898, but the 1900 U.S...

    , first dance partner of brother Fred, wife of Lord Cavendish; Waterford, Ireland (1975).
  • Mrs. Brooke Astor
    Brooke Astor
    Roberta Brooke Astor was an American philanthropist and socialite who was the chairwoman of the Vincent Astor Foundation, which had been established by her third husband, Vincent Astor, son of John Jacob Astor IV and great-great grandson of America's first multi-millionaire, John Jacob...

    , philanthropist; New York (1989).
  • Lily Auchincloss, art collector, philanthropist; New York (1980).
  • Lauren Bacall
    Lauren Bacall
    Lauren Bacall is an American film and stage actress and model, known for her distinctive husky voice and sultry looks.She first emerged as leading lady in the Humphrey Bogart film To Have And Have Not and continued on in the film noir genre, with appearances in The Big Sleep and Dark Passage ,...

    , actress; New York (2000).
  • Mme. Jacques Balsan (Consuelo Vanderbilt
    Consuelo Vanderbilt
    Consuelo Balsan , was a member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family...

    ), the former Duchess of Marlborough, international hostess; New York and Palm Beach (1958).
  • Anne H. Bass, socialite, philanthropist; New York (1994).
  • Mrs. Sid Bass
    Sid Bass
    Sid Richardson Bass is an American investor and businessman.-Life:He is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Business School. His father, Perry Richardson Bass , built an oil fortune with uncle, Sid Richardson . Bass took control of the business in 1968. His investments include oil and gas...

     (Mercedes), socialite, philanthropist, the former Mrs. Francis Kellogg; Fort Worth and New York (1987).
  • Olive Behrendt, actress, philanthropist; Los Angeles (1980).
  • Mme. Ahmed Benhima, wife of the former Moroccan ambassador to the U.N.; Rabat and New York (1975).
  • Marisa Berenson
    Marisa Berenson
    Vittoria Marisa Schiaparelli Berenson is an American actress and model.-Early life:She is the elder daughter of Robert L. Berenson, an American diplomat turned shipping executive, who was of Lithuanian Jewish descent; his family's original surname was Valvrojenski...

    , model, actress, granddaughter of Elsa Schiaparelli; New York (2000).
  • Candice Bergen
    Candice Bergen
    Candice Patricia Bergen is an American actress and former fashion model.She is known for starring in two TV series, as the title character on the situation comedy Murphy Brown , for which she won five Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards; and as Shirley Schmidt on the comedy-drama Boston Legal...

    , actress; New York (1995).
  • Rosamund Bernier, art lecturer, wife of John Russell of The New York Times; New York (1998).
  • Liliane Bettencourt
    Liliane Bettencourt
    Liliane Bettencourt is a French heiress, socialite, businesswoman and philanthropist. She is one of the principal shareholders of L'Oréal and, with a fortune estimated at US$23.5 billion, is one of the wealthiest people in the world.-Biography:...

    , (2009)
  • Countess Mona von Bismarck
    Mona von Bismarck
    Mona Travis Strader , known as Mona Bismarck, was an American socialite and fashion icon. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1958.-Early life:...

    , leading social figure of the 1930s, 40s and 50s, the former Mrs. Harrison Williams; New York, Palm Beach, Paris, and Capri (1958).
  • Evangelina Blahnik, company director for shoe designer Manolo Blahnik, her brother; London (1989).
  • Mrs. William McCormick Blair Jr. (Deeda), health-care advocate; Washington, D.C. (1970).
  • Mrs. Betsy Bloomingdale, socialite, wife of the department-store heir and Diners Club co-creator; Los Angeles (1970).
  • Eliza Reed Bolen, vice president of licensing for Oscar de la Renta, her stepfather; New York (2004).
  • Sra. Fernando Botero
    Fernando Botero
    Fernando Botero Angulo is a Colombian figurative artist. His works feature a figurative style, called by some "Boterismo", which gives them an unmistakable identity...

     (Sophia Vari), sculptor; Paris (1999).
  • Contessa Brando Brandolini d’Adda (Cristiana), socialite, sister of Gianni Agnelli; Venice (1975).
  • Contessa Tiberto Brandolini (Georgina), Valentino muse, designer; Paris (1983).
  • Mrs. David K. E. Bruce
    David K. E. Bruce
    David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce was an American diplomat, and the only American to serve as Ambassador to France, the Republic of Germany and the United Kingdom.-Biography:...

     (Evangeline), wife of the former U.S. ambassador to Great Britain; Washington, D.C. (1964).
  • Joan Juliet Buck, novelist, journalist; Santa Fe (1987).
  • Mrs. Patricia Buckley
    Patricia Buckley
    Patricia Aldyen Austin Taylor "Pat" Buckley was a Canadian socialite, noted for her fundraising activities and her height; she stood just under six feet. She was the wife of conservative writer and activist William F. Buckley, Jr...

    , hostess, socialite, member of the advisory council to Memorial Sloan-Kettering; New York (1975).
  • H.R.H. Princess Kyril of Bulgaria (Rosario), art consultant; London (1995).
  • Amanda Burden
    Amanda Burden
    Amanda Jay Mortimer Burden is the director of the New York City Department of City Planning and chair of the City Planning Commission....

    , chair of the City Planning Commission of New York, civic-affairs activist, daughter of Babe Paley
    Babe Paley
    Barbara "Babe" Cushing Mortimer Paley was an American socialite and style icon. She was known by the popular nickname "Babe" for most of her life. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1958....

    ; New York (1996).
  • Robin Butler, former Vogue fashion editor; New York (1967).
  • Mrs. Shakira Caine
    Shakira Caine
    Shakira Caine , is a Guyanese-British former fashion model and actress of Indian descent....

    , former actress, restaurateur; London (1991).
  • Margaret Case, Vogue editor; New York (1964).
  • Mme. Betty Catroux
    Betty Catroux
    Betty Catroux is a former Chanel model and fashion icon who has been cited as a muse by both Yves Saint Laurent and Tom Ford. Saint Laurent has called her his twin sister and referred to her as his female incarnation...

    , Yves Saint Laurent muse; Paris (1978).
  • Comtesse Frédéric Chandon de Briailles (Camilla), wife of the Moët & Chandon vineyard head; Paris (1993).
  • Coco Chanel
    Coco Chanel
    Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist thought, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century fashion. She was the founder of one of the most famous fashion brands, Chanel...

     (Gabrielle), fashion designer, one of the greatest fashion influences of the 20th century; Paris (1964).
  • Tina Chow
    Tina Chow
    Tina Chow was an internationally renowned model and a fashion icon in the 1980s. She is also a member of the International Best Dressed List since 1985....

    , model, artist, wife of restaurateur Michael Chow; New York (1985).
  • Alba Clemente, performer, wife of artist Francesco Clemente; New York and the Amalfi Coast, Italy (2007).
  • Claudette Colbert
    Claudette Colbert
    Claudette Colbert was a French-born American-based actress of stage and film.Born in Paris, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures...

    , actress; New York and Barbados (1958).
  • Amy Fine Collins, Vanity Fair special correspondent; New York (1996).
  • Sybil Connolly
    Sybil Connolly
    Sybil Connolly was an Irish fashion designer for Brunschwig & Fils, Schumacher, Tiffany & Co., etc...

    , fashion designer; Dublin (1965).
  • Marina Rust Connor, writer, Vogue contributing editor; New York (2007).
  • Sofia Coppola
    Sofia Coppola
    Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American screenwriter, film director, actress, and producer.In 2003 she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation, and became the third woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing...

    , filmmaker; New York and Paris (2007).
  • CeCe Cord, socialite, designer; New York (1995).
  • Pilar Crespi, former fashion public-relations executive, wife of investment banker Stephen Robert, daughter of below; New York (1978).
  • Contessa Rodolfo Crespi
    Consuelo Crespi
    Consuelo Pauline O'Brien O'Connor Crespi was an American-born Italian countess who served the world of high fashion as a style-setting model and editor of Vogue Italia. During the same period, her twin sister Gloria Schiff was a major influence on fashion as editor for the American edition of...

     (Consuelo), former Italian Vogue editor; New York and Rome (1959).
  • Kitty D’Alessio, fashion executive, former Chanel president; New York (1988).
  • Catherine Deneuve
    Catherine Deneuve
    Catherine Deneuve is a French actress. She gained recognition for her portrayal of aloof and mysterious beauties in films such as Repulsion and Belle de jour . Deneuve was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1993 for her performance in Indochine; she also won César Awards for that...

    , actress (2009)
  • Mrs. Kirk Douglas (Anne Buydens
    Anne Buydens
    - Early life :Buydens was born in Hanover, Germany. Buydens was in her early teens when her family fled fascism and emigrated to Belgium, where she became a citizen. Buydens continued her education there and in Switzerland before moving to Paris, where her fluent knowledge of several languages kept...

    ), philanthropist, community activist, wife of the actor; Los Angeles (1970).
  • Grace, Countess Dudley, international socialite; New York and London (1996).
  • Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke
    Angier Biddle Duke
    Angier Biddle Duke had a career which included being a diplomat in the United States foreign service.-Biography:Angier Biddle Duke was born November 30, 1915 in New York City....

     (Robin), philanthropist, hostess; New York (1994).
  • Irene Dunne
    Irene Dunne
    Irene Dunne was an American film actress and singer of the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances in Cimarron , Theodora Goes Wild , The Awful Truth , Love Affair and I Remember Mama...

    , actress, U.S. delegate to the U.N.; Los Angeles and New York (1958).
  • Mrs. Frederick Eberstadt (Isabel), socialite, author, daughter of author Ogden Nash; New York (1967).
  • Mrs. Jane Engelhard
    Jane Engelhard
    Jane Engelhard was an US philanthropist, best known for her marriage to billionaire industrialist Charles W...

    , philanthropist; New York (1972).
  • Mrs. Mica Ertegun, decorator, socialite; New York (1971).
  • Mrs. David Evins (Marilyn), public-relations executive; New York (1972).
  • Donna Simonetta Fabiani, fashion designer; Paris (1964).
  • Lucie de la Falaise, fashion stylist, model, wife of Marlon Richards; London (1997).
  • Maxime de la Falaise
    Maxime de la Falaise
    Maxime de la Falaise was a 1950s model, and, in the 1960s, an underground movie actress. She is also remembered as a cookery writer and "food maven" and a fashion designer for Chloé and Gérard Pipart...

    , fashion designer, author, former model; Paris (2004).
  • Susan Fales-Hill, author, television writer; New York (2004).
  • Lucy Ferry, heiress, former model, ex-wife of musician Bryan Ferry; London (1994).
  • Sra. Alfonso Fierro (Trini), socialite; Madrid (1989).
  • Mrs. Palen Flagler (Anita Colby
    Anita Colby
    Anita Colby was an actress and model. Colby was born Anita Counihan, the daughter of the cartoonist, Bud Counihan, a legendary figure among New York artists and newsmen. Early in her career, at $50 an hour, she was the highest paid model at the time...

    ), former actress; New York and Oyster Bay (1965).
  • Dame Margot Fonteyn, ballerina; London (1965).
  • Cristina Ford
    Cristina Ford
    Cristina Vettore Austin, who became commonly known as Cristina Ford or Mrs. Henry Ford II, was the second wife of former president, chairman, and chief executive officer of the Ford Motor Company Henry Ford II...

    , socialite, second wife of Henry Ford II; New York (1973).
  • Lady Charlotte Fraser, international socialite; London (1999).
  • Inès de la Fressange
    Inès de la Fressange
    Inès Marie Lætitia Églantine Isabelle de Seignard de La Fressange , is a French model, aristocrat and designer of fashion and perfumes. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1998.- Biography :...

    , fashion designer; Paris (1998).
  • Betty Furness
    Betty Furness
    Elizabeth Mary Furness was an American actress, consumer advocate and current affairs commentator.-Early years:...

    , consumer reporter-advocate, former actress; New York (1986).
  • Princess Irene Galitzine
    Irene Galitzine
    Princess Irene Galitzine was a Russian-Georgian-born fashion designer whose most renowned creation was the "palazzo pyjama"...

    , fashion designer; Rome (1965).
  • Sophie Gimbel
    Sophie Gimbel
    Sophie Gimbel was an American fashion designer for Salon Moderne of Saks Fifth Avenue. She was a leading designer for nearly 40 years and an innovator of the "New Look" that gained popularity after World War II.-Early life:...

    , Saks Fifth Avenue fashion designer; New York (1964).
  • Elizinha Goncalves, hostess, former wife of banker Walther Moreira Salles; Rio de Janeiro (1964).
  • H.M. Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, London (1958).
  • H.R.H. Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece
    Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece
    Marie-Chantal Claire, Crown Princess of Greece, Princess of Denmark , is a member of the Greek Royal Family through her marriage to Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece...

    , children’s-clothing designer, wife of the heir to the Greek throne; London (1999).
  • Mme. Alix Grès
    Grès
    Grès was a French haute couture fashion house. Parfums Grès is the associated perfume house, which still exists, and is now based in Switzerland. -History:...

    , fashion designer; Paris (1972).
  • Nina Griscom, socialite, former model; New York (1991).
  • Mrs. Henry Grunwald (editor) (Louise), philanthropist, hostess; New York (1976).
  • Mrs. C. Z. Guest
    C. Z. Guest
    Lucy Douglas Cochrane was an American stage actress, author, columnist, horsewoman, fashion designer, and socialite who achieved a degree of fame as a fashion icon. She was frequently seen wearing elegant designs by famous designers like Mainbocher. Her unfussy, clean-cut style was seen as...

    , socialite, gardening expert; Old Westbury, N.Y. (1959).
  • Mrs. Christian de Guigné III (Eleanor), socialite; San Francisco (1981).
  • Hon. Daphne Guinness
    Daphne Guinness
    The Honourable Daphne Diana Joan Suzannah Guinness is an artist of Irish, English, and French descent and an heiress of the Guinness family...

    , journalist, the former Mrs. Spyros Niarchos; London, Paris, and Sydney (1994).
  • Mrs. Loel (Gloria Guinness
    Gloria Guinness
    Gloria Guinness , born Gloria Rubio y Alatorre, was a Mexican-born socialite and fashion icon of the 20th century, and a contributing editor to Harper's Bazaar from 1963 until 1971...

    ), Mexican-born socialite, fashion icon; Paris, Lausanne, and Palm Beach (1964).
  • Mrs. Patrick (Dolores Guinness
    Dolores Guinness
    Dolores Guinness born 31 July 1936 in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany, is a German born Freiin , socialite, fashion icon and jet set member of the 1950s and 1960s. She is also a member of the International Best Dressed List since 1970...

    ) (Dolores von Fürstenberg-Herdringen), socialite, daughter of above; Lausanne (1970).
  • Mrs. Prentis Cobb Hale
    Prentis Cobb Hale
    Prentis Cobb Hale was an American entrepreneur.The son of Prentis Cobb Hale I, who with two brothers, founded Hale Brothers & Co. Inc, in Sacramento in 1881. Prentis Cobb Hale II earned a bachelor's degree in 1933 and an Ll.B. in 1936, both at Stanford University...

     (Denise), socialite; San Francisco (1975).
  • Mrs. Rupert Hambro (Robin), philanthropist, journalist; London (1976).
  • Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein II
    Oscar Hammerstein II
    Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...

     (Dorothy), socialite, wife of the composer; New York (1986).
  • H.R.H. Caroline, Princess of Hanover
    Caroline, Princess of Hanover
    Caroline, Princess of Hanover, Hereditary Princess of Monaco , formally styled Her Royal Highness The Princess of Hanover , has been heiress presumptive to the throne of Monaco since 2005, a position which she previously held from 1957 to 1958.She is the wife of...

    , elder daughter of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco; Monte Carlo and Paris (1994).
  • Lady Amanda Harlech, fashion consultant, Karl Lagerfeld muse; London (1997).
  • The Hon. Pamela Harriman
    Pamela Harriman
    Pamela Beryl Harriman , also known as Pamela Churchill Harriman, was an English-born socialite who was married and linked to important and powerful men. In later life, she became a political activist for the United States Democratic Party and a diplomat...

    , former U.S. ambassador to France, first wife of Randolph Churchill, fourth wife of Leland Hayward, third wife of Averill Harriman; Washington, D.C. (1993).
  • Mrs. Donald Harrington (Sybil), philanthropist, opera sponsor; Amarillo, Tex., and Phoenix, Ariz. (1988).
  • Kitty Carlisle Hart
    Kitty Carlisle Hart
    Kitty Carlisle was an American singer, actress and spokeswoman for the arts. She is best remembered as a regular panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth. She served 20 years on the New York State Council on the Arts. In 1991, she received the National Medal of Arts from President...

    , actress, fine-arts authority, former chairman of the New York State Council on the Arts, widow of playwright Moss Hart; New York and Palm Beach (1994).
  • Dina Merrill Hartley, RKO Pictures vice-chairman, actress, daughter of Marjorie Merriwether Post and E. F. Hutton; Los Angeles and Palm Beach (1965).
  • Enid A. Haupt
    Enid A. Haupt
    thumb|right|Enid Haupt with Lady Bird Johnson at the SmithsonianEnid A. Haupt was an American publisher and philanthropist whose gifts supported horticulture, the arts, architectural and historic preservation, and cancer research...

    , philanthropist, wife of financier Ira Haupt, sister of Walter Annenberg; New York (1965).
  • Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Jr. (Bootsie), socialite, wife of the newspaper reporter and editor, the former Austine Cassini; New York (1959).
  • Madame Aimée de Heeren, Brazilian-born international socialite, hostess; New York, Paris, Palm Beach, and Biarritz (1996).
  • Mrs. T. Charlton Henry (Julia), socialite, museum benefactress; Philadelphia and Switzerland (1964).
  • Audrey Hepburn
    Audrey Hepburn
    Audrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian. Although modest about her acting ability, Hepburn remains one of the world's most famous actresses of all time, remembered as a film and fashion icon of the twentieth century...

    , actress, UNICEF goodwill ambassador; Tolochenaz, Switzerland (1961).
  • Carolina Herrera (fashion designer)
    Carolina Herrera (fashion designer)
    Carolina Herrera Carolina Herrera Carolina Herrera (born María Carolina Josefina Pacanins y Niño (born January 8, 1939) is a Venezuelan and naturalized American fashion designer and entrepreneur who founded her eponymous company in 1980.-Early life:...

    ; New York and Caracas (1980).
  • Carolina Adriana Herrera, film producer, international representative of Carolina Herrera perfumes, daughter of above; New York and Madrid (1997).
  • Lena Horne
    Lena Horne
    Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer.Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the...

    , singer; New York (1983).
  • Anjelica Huston
    Anjelica Huston
    Anjelica Huston is an American actress. Huston became the third generation of her family to win an Academy Award, for her performance in 1985's Prizzi's Honor, joining her father, director John Huston, and grandfather, actor Walter Huston. She later was nominated in 1989 and 1990 for her acting in...

    , actress; Los Angeles (1988).
  • Iman (model)
    Iman (model)
    Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid , professionally known as Iman , is a Somali-American fashion model, actress and entrepreneur. A pioneer in the field of ethnic cosmetics, she is also noted for her charitable work. She is married to David Bowie.-Early life:Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, Iman is the daughter...

    , model, cosmetics executive, wife of David Bowie; New York (1986).
  • Bianca Jagger
    Bianca Jagger
    Bianca Jagger is a Nicaraguan-born social and human rights advocate and a former actress and model...

    , human-rights activist; New York (1976).
  • H.I.M. Empress Michiko of Japan
    Empress Michiko of Japan
    Empress Michiko of Japan is the wife and consort of Emperor Akihito, the current monarch of Japan. She was the first commoner to marry into the Japanese Imperial Family. As crown princess and later as empress consort, she has become the most visible and widely-travelled imperial consort in...

    , Tokyo (1990).
  • Mrs. Deane Johnson (Anne), philanthropist, first wife of Henry Ford II
    Henry Ford II
    Henry Ford II , commonly known as "HF2" and "Hank the Deuce", was the son of Edsel Ford and grandson of Henry Ford...

    ; Grosse Pointe and New York (1959).
  • H.R.H. Princess Firyal of Jordan
    Princess Firyal of Jordan
    H.R.H. Princess Firyal is a Jordanian princess. Married to Prince Muhammad bin Talal from 1964 to 1978, she is the mother of Prince Talal Prince Ghazi and Princess Mia bin Muhammad. Princess Firyal is known as a socialite and philanthropist...

    , UNESCO goodwill ambassador; New York (1985).
  • H.M. Queen Noor of Jordan; Amman (1998).
  • H.M. Queen Rania of Jordan; Amman (2006).
  • Mrs. Michael Kaiser
    Michael Kaiser
    Michael M. Kaiser is president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.Dubbed "the turnaround king" for his work at such arts institutions as the Kansas City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre and the Royal Opera House, Kaiser has...

     (Betsy), socialite, Galanos muse, former model; Santa Barbara (1971).
  • Mrs. Nan Kempner
    Nan Kempner
    Nan Kempner was a New York City socialite, famous for dominating society events, shopping, charity work and fashion.She was born as Nan Field Schlesinger in San Francisco, an only child from a wealthy family...

    , socialite, former magazine journalist; New York (1971).
  • Mrs. Rose Kennedy, Kennedy-family matriarch; Boston (1966).
  • H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, (born Princess Marina of Greece); London (1960).
  • Jemima Khan
    Jemima Khan
    Jemima Marcelle Khan is a British writer and campaigner. She is associate editor of the New Statesman and European editor-at-large for Vanity Fair. She has worked as a charity fundraiser, human rights campaigner and contributing writer for British newspapers and magazines...

    , fashion designer, charity worker; London (2007).
  • Princess Salimah Aga Khan, child-welfare activist, first wife (begum) of His Highness the Aga Khan, the Muslim spiritual leader; Paris (1973).
  • Nicole Kidman
    Nicole Kidman
    Nicole Mary Kidman, AC is an American-born Australian actress, singer, film producer, spokesmodel, and humanitarian. After starring in a number of small Australian films and TV shows, Kidman's breakthrough was in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm...

    , actress; Los Angeles, New York, and Australia (2004).
  • Mrs. Nancy Kissinger
    Nancy Kissinger
    Nancy Sharon Maginnes Kissinger is a philanthropist, and the second wife of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The couple married on March 31, 1974, in Arlington, VA; a year earlier she had said that speculation that the two would marry was "outrageous."Nancy Kissinger was raised in...

    , political analyst, wife of the former U.S. secretary of state; New York (1982).
  • Elsa Klensch
    Elsa Klensch
    Elsa Klensch is an Australian-American journalist and novelist, often working in the world of fashion. She was the producer and host of Style with Elsa Klensch, CNN's weekly fashion and design television program, which ran from 1980 to 2001.-Career:...

    , television style journalist, author; New York and Sydney (1989).
  • Mme. Thadée Klossowski (Loulou de la Falaise
    Loulou de la Falaise
    Loulou de La Falaise was a fashion muse and designer of fashion, accessories, and jewelry associated with Yves Saint-Laurent. Author Judith Thurman, writing in The New Yorker magazine, called La Falaise "the quintessential Rive Gauche haute bohémienne"....

    ), fashion designer, Yves Saint Laurent muse, daughter-in-law of the artist Balthus; Paris (1981).
  • Alexandra Kotur
    Alexandra Kotur
    Alexandra Kotur is an American author and fashion journalist. Kotur is the style director of U.S. Vogue. Kotur is an international taste-maker and member of the International Best-Dressed List.-Background and Career:...

    , style director, U.S. Vogue (2008)
  • Mrs. Henry Kravis
    Henry Kravis
    Henry R. Kravis is an American businessman and private equity investor. He is the co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a private equity firm with over $62 billion in assets as of 2011. He has an estimated net worth of $3.7 billion as of September 2011, ranked by Forbes as the 88th richest...

     (Marie-Josée), economist, wife of the financier; New York (2001).
  • Mrs. Henryk de Kwiatkowski
    Henryk de Kwiatkowski
    Henryk Richard de Kwiatkowski was a Polish-born member of the Royal Air Force who became an aeronautical engineer and made a fortune in business in North America and who owned Calumet Farm, one of the most prestigious Thoroughbred horse breeding and racing farms in the United States.Born in...

     (Barbara), former model; New York, Greenwich, Conn., Lexington, Ky., and Lyford Cay, Bahamas (1995).
  • Irith Landeau, socialite, hostess; Paris and Jerusalem (1990).
  • Patricia Lansing, wife of Gerrit Livingston Lansing Jr., fashion consultant for Carolina Herrera, her mother; New York (1999).
  • Estée Lauder
    Estée Lauder (person)
    Estée Lauder was an American businesswoman who was the co-founder, along with her husband Joseph Lauder, of Estée Lauder Companies, a pioneering cosmetics company. Lauder was the only woman on TIME magazine's 1998 list of the 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20th century. She was the...

    , cosmetics tycoon; New York and Palm Beach (1981).
  • Mary Wells Lawrence
    Mary Wells Lawrence
    Mary Wells Lawrence is a retired American advertising executive. She was the founding president of Wells Rich Greene, an advertising agency known for its creativity and innovative work, and the first woman CEO of a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.In the late 1940s, Mary Wells...

    , advertising executive, author; New York (1977).
  • Fran Lebowitz
    Fran Lebowitz
    -Life:Born and raised in Morristown, New Jersey, Lebowitz is best known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker...

    , writer; New York (2008).
  • Mrs. Mark Littman (Marguerite), hostess, fund-raiser; London (1995).
  • Mollie Parnis Livingston, fashion designer; New York (1967).
  • H.R.H. Princess Francoise Lobkowicz de Bourbon-Parme, philanthropist for Lebanon, wife of Prince Edouard Lobkowicz, nice of Empress Zita of Austria ; Paris, Beirut and Beaux (1977)
  • Mme. Arturo Lopez-Willshaw (Patricia), Chilean-born hostess, style leader; Paris (1960).
  • Sophia Loren
    Sophia Loren
    Sophia Loren, OMRI is an Italian actress.In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, along with 21 awards, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance...

    , actress; Rome (1998).
  • The Hon. Clare Boothe Luce
    Clare Boothe Luce
    Clare Boothe Luce was an American playwright, editor, journalist, ambassador, socialite and U.S. Congresswoman, representing the state of Connecticut.-Early life:...

    , former U.S. ambassador to Italy, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, journalist, playwright; New York (1985).
  • Joyce Ma, fashion retailer, art dealer; New York (1998).
  • China Machado, fashion journalist, former model; New York (1989).
  • Mrs. Stanley Marcus
    Stanley Marcus
    Harold Stanley Marcus was an early president and later chairman of the board of the luxury retailer Neiman Marcus in Dallas, Texas, which his father and aunt had founded in 1907...

     (Mary), philanthropist, wife of the Neiman Marcus chairman; Dallas (1964).
  • Mary Martin
    Mary Martin
    Mary Virginia Martin was an American actress and singer. She originated many roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria in The Sound of Music. She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989...

    , actress; New York (1958).
  • Mrs. Graham Mattison (Perla), international social figure; Rio de Janeiro (1972).
  • Mrs. Tom May (Anita), wife of the department-store executive; Beverly Hills and Palm Springs (1964).
  • Sra. Antonio Mayrink-Veiga (Carmen), Brazilian socialite; Rio de Janeiro (1981).
  • Marian McEvoy, former Elle Decor and House Beautiful editor in chief; New York (2001).
  • Mary McFadden
    Mary McFadden
    Mary Josephine McFadden is an American fashion designer and writer.-Family:McFadden is the only daughter of Alexander Bloomfield McFadden, a cotton broker, and her mother was the former Mary Josephine Cutting, a socialite and concert pianist. Her father died in 1948, when he was killed in an...

    , fashion designer; New York (1977).
  • Anne McNally, Vanity Fair fashion director; New York (2001).
  • Mrs. Rachel Lambert Mellon
    Rachel Lambert Mellon
    Rachel "Bunny" Lowe Lambert Lloyd Mellon is an American horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, fine arts collector, member of the International Best Dressed List, and widow of philanthropist, art collector, thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder, and banking heir Paul Mellon.-Background:Known...

    , art collector, philanthropist, gardener; New York and Upperville, Va. (1975).
  • Mrs. Gilbert Miller
    Gilbert Miller
    Gilbert Heron Miller was an American theatrical producer.Born in New York City, he was the son of English-born theatrical producer Henry Miller and Bijou Heron, a former child actress. Raised and educated in Europe, he returned home to follow in his father's footsteps and became a highly...

     (Kitty), hostess, wife of the theatrical producer, daughter of financier Jules Bache; New York (1965).
  • Grace Mirabella
    Grace Mirabella
    Grace Mirabella is a former editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine. She started working at Vogue in the 1950s and served as editor in chief between 1971 and 1988.-Biography:...

    , former Vogue editor in chief; New York (1975).
  • H.S.H. Princess Grace of Monaco, film star Grace Kelly; Monte Carlo (1960).
  • Kate Moss
    Kate Moss
    Kate Moss is an English model. Moss is known for her waifish figure and popularising the heroin chic look in the 1990s. She is also known for her controversial private life, high profile relationships, party lifestyle, and drug use. Moss changed the look of modelling and started a global debate on...

    , model; London (2006).
  • Contessa Donina Cicogna Mozzoni, socialite; Monte Carlo (1990).
  • Jean Muir
    Jean Muir
    Jean Elizabeth Muir, CBE, FCSD was an English fashion designer .-History and early career:...

    , fashion designer; London (1982).
  • Mrs. Kenneth Natori (Josie), fashion designer; New York (1993).
  • Mrs. Samuel Newhouse
    Samuel Newhouse
    Samuel Newhouse was a Utah entrepreneur and mining magnate.He was born in New York City of European Jewish immigrant parents and grew up in Pennsylvania. He studied law there before going to Colorado in 1879...

     (Mitzi), philanthropist, wife of the media owner; New York (1965).
  • Jessye Norman
    Jessye Norman
    Jessye Norman is an American opera singer. Norman is a well-known contemporary opera singer and recitalist, and is one of the highest paid performers in classical music...

    , opera singer; New York (1993).
  • Merle Oberon
    Merle Oberon
    Merle Oberon was an Indian-born British actress best known for her screen performances in The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Cowboy and the Lady . She began her film career in British films as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII . She travelled to the United States to make films for Samuel...

    , actress, wife of the Mexican industrialist Bruno Paglai; Acapulco (1960).
  • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
    Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
    Jacqueline Lee Bouvier "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and served as First Lady of the United States during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Five years later she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle...

    , former First Lady; New York (1965).
  • Comtesse Hubert d’Ornano (Isabelle), Sisley cosmetics co-founder; Paris (1993).
  • Empress Farah Pahlavi
    Farah Pahlavi
    Farah Pahlavi is the former Queen and Empress of Iran. She is the widow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, and only Empress of modern Iran...

    , former Empress of Iran; Paris (1977).
  • Mrs. Barbara Cushing Mortimer Paley (Babe Paley
    Babe Paley
    Barbara "Babe" Cushing Mortimer Paley was an American socialite and style icon. She was known by the popular nickname "Babe" for most of her life. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1958....

    ), socialite, philanthropist, former Vogue fashion editor, wife of CBS chairman William Paley, cited as “the Super Dresser of Our Time” in 1975; New York (1958).
  • Marina Palma, socialite, fashion designer; London (1989).
  • Mme. Antenor Patiño
    Antenor Patiño
    Antenor Patiño Rodríguez was a Bolivian tycoon, heir to his father Simón I...

     (Beatriz), international hostess; Paris and New York (1984).
  • Countess Cosima von Bülow Pavoncelli, socialite, daughter of Claus von Bülow
    Claus von Bülow
    Claus von Bülow is a British socialite of German and Danish ancestry. He was accused of the attempted murder of his wife Sunny von Bülow by administering an insulin overdose in 1980 but his conviction in the first trial was reversed and he was found not guilty in both his retrials.-Biography:Born...

     and Sunny von Bülow
    Sunny von Bülow
    Martha Sharp Crawford von Bülow , known as Sunny von Bülow, was an American heiress and socialite. Her husband, Claus von Bülow, was convicted of attempting her murder by insulin overdose, but the conviction was overturned on appeal...

    ; London (1999).
  • Mrs. Samuel Peabody (Judith), philanthropist, AIDS activist; New York (1995).
  • Elsa Peretti
    Elsa Peretti
    -Biography:She was born in Florence, Italy, in 1940, the daughter of a well-to-do Roman family. Educated at Volbicela School in Rome, with a diploma in interior design. In early jobs she was a French teacher, a ski instructor and a model...

    , jewelry designer; Rome (1973).
  • Mrs. Milton Petrie
    Milton Petrie
    Milton Petrie was a Russian American retailer, investor and philanthropist. He made a fortune from a chain of retail stores and supplemented it through a series of investments in real estate and stocks...

     (Carroll), philanthropist; New York (1972).
  • Anna Piaggi
    Anna Piaggi
    Anna Piaggi is an Italian fashion writer and style icon.Anna Piaggi has worked as a translator for an Italian publishing company Mondadori, then written for fashion magazines such as the Italian edition of Vogue and, in the 1980s, the avant-garde magazine Vanity...

    , fashion journalist; Milan (2007).
  • Paloma Picasso
    Paloma Picasso
    Anne Paloma Picasso known professionally as Paloma Picasso, is a French/Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman, best known for her jewelry designs and signature perfumes. She is the youngest daughter of famed 20th-century artist Pablo Picasso and painter and writer Françoise Gilot...

    , jewelry designer, art patron, daughter of Pablo Picasso; Paris (1983).
  • Pauline Pitt, socialite, decorator; New York and Palm Beach (1996).
  • Hope Portocarrero
    Hope Portocarrero
    Hope Portocarrero Somoza Baldocchi was the first lady of Nicaragua, the wife of Anastasio Somoza Debayle and mother of Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero.She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1968....

    , socialite, first lady of Nicaragua
    Nicaragua
    Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...

    , the wife of Anastasio Somoza Debayle
    Anastasio Somoza Debayle
    Anastasio Somoza Debayle was a Nicaraguan leader and officially the 73rd and 76th President of Nicaragua from 1 May 1967 to 1 May 1972 and from 1 December 1974 to 17 July 1979. As head of the National Guard, he was de facto ruler of the country from 1967 to 1979...

    ; New York, Key Biscayne, Managua (1968).
  • Mme. Claude Pompidou
    Claude Pompidou
    Claude Jacqueline Pompidou was the wife of President of France Georges Pompidou. She was a philanthropist and a patron of modern art, especially through the Centre Georges Pompidou.-Life before politics:...

    , wife of the former president of France, philanthropist; Paris (1994).
  • Mrs. Charles H. Price II
    Charles H. Price II
    Charles H. Price II is a prominent American businessman and former Ambassador of the United States.-Early life:Price was born to a prominent family in Kansas City, Missouri, who owned a local candy manufacturing firm, the Price Candy Company...

     (Carol), wife of the former American ambassador to Belgium and Great Britain; Indian Wells, Calif., and Kansas City, Mo. (1987).
  • Princess Lee Radziwill
    Lee Radziwill
    Caroline Lee Bouvier Canfield Radziwill Ross best known as Lee Radziwill, is an American socialite, public relations executive, and former actress and interior decorator. She is the younger sister of the late First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis...

    , Vanity Fair contributing editor, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, ex-wife of Prince Stanislaus Radziwill and of film director Herbert Ross; Paris (1996).
  • Marquise Jacqueline de Ravenel, socialite, former wife of Manuel Machado Macedo; Lyford Cay and Paris (1978).
  • Chessy Rayner, fashion journalist, decorator; New York (1971).
  • Mrs. Nancy Reagan
    Nancy Reagan
    Nancy Davis Reagan is the widow of former United States President Ronald Reagan and was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989....

    , former First Lady, former actress; Bel Air (1973).
  • Annette de la Renta
    Annette de la Renta
    Annette de la Renta is an American philanthropist and socialite married to the fashion designer Oscar de la Renta.-Birth and childhood:...

    , philanthropist, New York’s social queen, wife of the fashion designer Oscar de la Renta; New York, Kent, Conn., and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (1973).
  • Françoise de la Renta, former French Vogue editor in chief, first wife of the designer; New York (1973).
  • Lyn Revson, wife of the late cosmetics executive Charles Revson
    Charles Revson
    Charles Haskell Revson was a pioneering cosmetics industry executive who created and managed Revlon through five decades.-Early age:...

    ; New York (1971).
  • Comtesse Jacqueline de Ribes
    Jacqueline de Ribes
    Comtesse Jacqueline de Ribes is a French socialite and fashion designer. She is also a member of the International Best Dressed List since 1962.-Early life:...

    , fashion designer; Paris (1962).
  • Mrs. Abraham Ribicoff (Casey), socialite, widow of the former Connecticut senator; New York and Cornwall Bridge, Conn. (1988).
  • Mme. Hélène Rochas, Parisian hostess, former director of Marcel Rochas fashion house; Paris (1964).
  • Carolyne Roehm, former fashion designer, gardener, author; New York and Sharon, Conn. (1991).
  • Aline, Countess of Romanones
    Aline, Countess of Romanones
    Doña María Aline Griffith Dexter, Countess of Romanones, Grandee of Spain is a Spanish-American aristocrat, socialite, and writer who started at the US Office of Strategic Services as a cipher clerk during World War II...

    , socialite, former spy, author; Madrid and New York (1962).
  • Baroness Pauline de Rothschild
    Pauline de Rothschild
    Pauline de Rothschild was a writer, a fashion designer, and, with her second husband, a translator of both Elizabethan poetry and the plays of Christopher Fry...

    , former Hattie Carnegie
    Hattie Carnegie
    Hattie Carnegie was a fashion entrepreneur based in New York City from the 1920s to the 1960s. She was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary as Henrietta Kanengeiser....

     fashion designer; Paris and Bordeaux (1969).
  • Mme. Jacques Rouet (Louise), wife of the co-founder of Dior; Paris (1981).
  • Rosalind Russell
    Rosalind Russell
    Rosalind Russell was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Mame Dennis in the film Auntie Mame...

    , actress; Beverly Hills (1964).
  • Mrs. John Barry Ryan III (D.D.), former fashion editor, social figure; New York (1963).
  • Ellin Saltzman, fashion director of Bluefly, fashion executive; New York (1980).
  • Sra. Julio Mario Santo Domingo
    Julio Mario Santo Domingo
    Julio Mario Santo Domingo Pumarejo was a Colombian businessman and patriarch of the wealthy Santo Domingo family. He was the son of Mario Santo Domingo and Beatriz Pumarejo...

     (Beatrice), international socialite; New York, Paris, Bogotá, and Barranquilla, Colombia (1987).
  • Mme. Pierre Schlumberger (Sao), hostess, art patron; Paris (1975).
  • Anne Slater, social figure; New York (1991).
  • Alexis Smith
    Alexis Smith
    Alexis Smith was a Canadian-born stage, film, and television actress. She appeared in several major Hollywood movies in the 1940s and had a notable career on Broadway in the 1970s, winning a Tony Award in 1972.-Life and career:...

    , actress; New York (1978).
  • Mrs. Ray Stark
    Ray Stark
    Ray Stark was an American film producer and powerbroker known for his Machiavellian ways.While putting together the Broadway musical Funny Girl - the highly fictionalized account of the life of his mother-in-law, Fanny Brice - its producer David Merrick took Stark and his wife to see an unknown...

     (Fran), socialite, wife of the film producer, daughter of Fanny Brice
    Fanny Brice
    Fanny Brice was a popular and influential American illustrated song "model," comedienne, singer, theatre and film actress, who made many stage, radio and film appearances and is known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series, The Baby Snooks Show...

    , mother of Vanity Fair contributing editor Wendy Stark; Los Angeles (1988).
  • Mrs. Saul Steinberg
    Saul Steinberg
    Saul Steinberg was a Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his work for The New Yorker.-Biography:...

     (Gayfryd), socialite; New York (2000).
  • Geraldine Stutz
    Geraldine Stutz
    Geraldine Stutz was an American retail groundbreaker. She was appointed president of Henri Bendel in 1957, serving for 29 years until stepping down in 1986.She was born in Chicago, Illinois....

    , former president of Henri Bendel
    Henri Bendel
    Henri Bendel is an American upscale women's specialty store based in New York City that sells fashion accessories, cosmetics and fragrances, gifts and gourmet foods...

    ; New York (1965).
  • Mrs. Martin Summers (Ann), European socialite; London (2000).
  • Mrs. T. Suffern Tailer (Jean), socialite; Palm Beach (1980).
  • H.M. Queen Sirikit of Thailand, Bangkok (1965).
  • The Rt. Hon. Baroness Thatcher (Margaret Thatcher
    Margaret Thatcher
    Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...

    ), former prime minister of Great Britain; London (1990).
  • Mrs. Lawrence Copley Thaw (Lee), socialite, Sotheby’s executive; New York (1990).
  • Alexandra Theodoracopulos, Princess Alexandra Schönberg-Hartenstein; New York and Gstaad (1990).
  • Pauline Trigère
    Pauline Trigère
    Pauline Trigère was a French-born American fashion designer, known for her crisp, tailored cuts and innovative ideas.The daughter of a tailor, Trigère was able to operate a sewing machine by age 10 and often assisted her dressmaker mother. Shortly after leaving school, Pauline was employed as a...

    , fashion designer; New York (1964).
  • Tina Turner
    Tina Turner
    Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...

    , singer; Zurich (1996).
  • Gloria Vanderbilt
    Gloria Vanderbilt
    Gloria Laura Vanderbilt is an American artist, author, actress, heiress, and socialite most noted as an early developer of designer blue jeans...

    , author, artist, fashion designer; New York (1970).
  • Adrienne Vittadini
    Adrienne Vittadini
    Adrienne Vittadini is a renowned American fashion designer. When she was 12, her family fled Budapest during the 1956 Hungarian revolution. In 1979, she started what would become a multi-million dollar fashion business as a hobby. The brand name Adrienne Vittadini is synonymous with designs that...

    , fashion designer; New York (1995).
  • Diana Vreeland
    Diana Vreeland
    Diana Vreeland was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion. She worked for the fashion magazines Harper's Bazaar and Vogue and the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Born as Diana Dalziel, Vreeland was the eldest daughter of American socialite mother Emily Key Hoffman...

    , former Vogue editor in chief, special consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Metropolitan Museum of Art
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...

    ’s Costume Institute, international fashion guru; New York (1964).
  • Mrs. Jerry Wald
    Jerry Wald
    Jerry Wald was an American producer and screenwriter for motion pictures and radio shows.Born Jerome Irving Wald in Brooklyn, New York, he had a brother and sons who were active in show business. Jerry began writing a radio column for the New York Evening Graphic while a student at New York...

     (Connie), hostess; Beverly Hills (2006).
  • Baroness Louise de Waldner, gardener; Provence (1995).
  • Baroness Sylvia de Waldner, Brazilian-born socialite; Paris (1986).
  • H.R.H. Diana, The Princess of Wales
    Diana, Princess of Wales
    Diana, Princess of Wales was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, whom she married on 29 July 1981, and an international charity and fundraising figure, as well as a preeminent celebrity of the late 20th century...

    , London (1989).
  • Faye Wattleton
    Faye Wattleton
    Faye Wattleton is the first African-American and youngest President ever elected to Planned Parenthood . Currently, she serves as the President of the Center for the Advancement of Women, and also serves on the board of trustees at Columbia University...

    , author, public-policy adviser; New York (1998).
  • The Hon. Hilary Weston
    Hilary Weston
    Hilary M. Weston , CM, O.Ont was the 26th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, serving from 1997 to 2002. During her five year tenure, Mrs...

    , former model, former lieutenant governor of Ontario, business executive, author; Toronto (1987).
  • Mrs. R. Thornton Wilson Jr. (Josie), socialite, hostess; New York (1985).
  • Her Grace The Duchess of Windsor (Wallis Simpson), wife of the former Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom, Emperor of India, who abdicated to marry her; Paris (1958).
  • Mrs. Norman K. Winston (Rosita), socialite, wife of the real-estate mogul; New York (1961).
  • Anna Wintour
    Anna Wintour
    Anna Wintour, OBE is the British-born editor-in-chief of American Vogue, a position she has held since 1988. With her trademark pageboy bob haircut and sunglasses, Wintour has become an institution throughout the fashion world, widely praised for her eye for fashion trends and her support for...

    , Vogue editor in chief; New York (1997).
  • Mrs. Charles Wrightsman (Jayne Wrightsman
    Jayne Wrightsman
    Jayne Wrightsman is an American philanthropist, fine arts collector and widow of philanthropist and art collector, Charles B. Wrightsman . She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1965.-References:...

    ), socialite, collector, museum patron, wife of Charles Wrightsman; New York (1965).
  • Mrs. Oscar Wyatt Jr. (Lynn), socialite, wife of the oilman; Houston (1977).
  • Loretta Young
    Loretta Young
    Loretta Young was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953...

    , actress, television star; Hollywood (1982).
  • Renée Zellweger
    Renée Zellweger
    Renée Kathleen Zellweger is an American actress and producer. Zellweger first gained widespread attention for her role in the film Jerry Maguire , and subsequently received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles as Bridget Jones in the comedy Bridget Jones's Diary ...

    , actress (2009).
  • Baroness Thierry Van Zuylen van Nijevelt
    Van Zuylen van Nijevelt
    Van Zuylen van Nijevelt This family must not be confused with the old noble family from Utrecht, Van Zuylen van Nievelt-Origins:During the 19th C. members of this family tried to prove that they were descendants of the Utrecht noble family. This has later been found impossible to prove.Their...

     (Gaby), international socialite; Paris (1978).

The International Hall of Fame: Men

  • The Hon. Dean Acheson
    Dean Acheson
    Dean Gooderham Acheson was an American statesman and lawyer. As United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War...

    , former U.S. secretary of state; Washington, D.C. (1969).
  • Gianni Agnelli
    Gianni Agnelli
    Giovanni Agnelli , better known as Gianni Agnelli , was an Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat. As the head of Fiat, he controlled 4.4% of Italy's GDP, 3.1% of its industrial workforce, and 16.5% of its industrial investment in research...

    , Fiat chairman; Turin (1970).
  • Nicolas de Gunzburg, Editor-in-Cief of Town & Country
    Town & Country (magazine)
    Town & Country, formerly the Home Journal and The National Press, is a monthly American lifestyle magazine. It is the oldest continually published general interest magazine in the United States.-Early history:...

    , fashion editor (1971).
  • David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie
    David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie
    David George Coke Patrick Ogilvy, 8th Earl of Airlie, KT, GCVO, PC, JP is the eldest son of David Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Airlie and Lady Alexandra Coke. His younger brother was Sir Angus Ogilvy, the husband of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent.Born in London, Lord Airlie was educated at Eton, and...

    , former Lord Chamberlain to the Queen; Angus, Scotland (1972).
  • Sir Hardy Amies
    Hardy Amies
    Hardy Amies, Ltd. is a British-based fashion house specialising in modern luxury menswear.-Sir Edwin Hardy Amies:Sir Edwin Hardy Amies, KCVO , was a British fashion designer, best known for his official title as dressmaker for Queen Elizabeth II, from her accession to the throne until his...

    , fashion designer; London (1974).
  • Thomas Ammann
    Thomas Ammann
    Thomas E. Ammann was a leading Swiss art dealer in Impressionist and Twentieth Century Art and major collector of Post-war and Contemporary Art.-Life:...

    , private art dealer; Zurich (1988).
  • Prince Pierre d’Arenberg, host; Paris (2001).
  • Giorgio Armani
    Giorgio Armani
    Giorgio Armani is an Italian fashion designer, particularly noted for his menswear. He is known today for his clean, tailored lines. He formed his company, Armani, in 1975, and by 2001 was acclaimed as the most successful designer to come out of Italy, with an annual turnover of $1.6 billion and a...

    , fashion designer; Milan (1981).
  • Arthur Ashe
    Arthur Ashe
    Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. was a professional tennis player, born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. During his career, he won three Grand Slam titles, putting him among the best ever from the United States...

    , professional tennis player; Richmond, Va. (1984).
  • Fred Astaire
    Fred Astaire
    Fred Astaire was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute...

    , dancer, actor; Los Angeles (1968).
  • Dr. Daniel Baker
    Daniel Baker
    Daniel Baker is the CEO of FlightAware, a real time flight tracking and status company. He originally became known in the 1990s as a principal of distributed.net, which pioneered Internet distributed computing. Baker was the head of the systems department at NeoSoft, the first Internet provider in...

    , cosmetic surgeon; New York (2000).
  • Billy Baldwin (interior designer), decorator; New York (1974).
  • Wilkes Bashford
    Wilkes Bashford
    Wilkes Bashford is an upscale store for women and men in the Union Square Shopping District in San Francisco, California.It was established in 1966 by Wilkes Bashford and has long catered to the elite, including former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown....

    , fashion retailer; San Francisco (1983).
  • Sir Cecil Beaton
    Cecil Beaton
    Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, CBE was an English fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre...

    , artist, photographer; London (1970).
  • David Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort
    David Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort
    David Robert Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort is a British peer. He was nominated to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1988.-Early life:...

    , landowner, partner in the Marlborough art gallery; London (1988).
  • Jonathan Becker, photographer; New York (2008).
  • John Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford
    John Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford
    John Ian Robert Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford was a British peer and writer, the son of Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1985.- Biography :...

    , landowner; London and Santa Fe (1985).
  • Harry Belafonte
    Harry Belafonte
    Harold George "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist. He was dubbed the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s...

    , musician; New York (1972).
  • Bijan Pakzad, fashion designer; Beverly Hills (1989).
  • Mark Birley
    Mark Birley
    Marcus Lecky Oswald Hornby Birley , known as Mark Birley, was a British entrepreneur known for his investments in the hospitality industry...

    , restaurateur, health-club proprietor, men’s-fragrance designer; London (1988).
  • Earl Blackwell, Celebrity Service founder; New York (1980).
  • Manolo Blahnik
    Manolo Blahnik
    Manuel "Manolo" Blahnik Rodríguez CBE, , is a Spanish fashion designer and founder of the self-named, high-end shoe brand.-Biography:Born to a Czech father and a Spanish mother and born and raised in the Canary Islands , Blahnik graduated from the University of Geneva in 1965 and studied art in Paris...

    , shoe designer; London (1987).
  • Bill Blass
    Bill Blass
    William Ralph "Bill" Blass was an American fashion designer, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is known for his tailoring and his innovative combinations of textures and patterns...

    , fashion designer; New York (1970).
  • Dixon Boardman
    Dixon Boardman
    Dixon Boardman was an American track and field athlete who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.Boardman competed in the 100 metres event, placing 12th or 13th overall...

    , financier; New York and Locust Valley (1994).
  • David Bowie
    David Bowie
    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

    , musician; New York (1998).
  • Hamish Bowles
    Hamish Bowles
    Hamish Bowles is the European Editor at Large for Vogue and involved in the worlds of fashion and interior design.- Background :As the European Editor at Large for Vogue, Hamish Bowles is recognized as one of the most respected authorities on the worlds of fashion and interior design. After...

    , Vogue European editor-at-large; New York (1997).
  • Ed Bradley
    Ed Bradley
    Edward Rudolph "Ed" Bradley, Jr. was an American journalist, best known for twenty-six years of award-winning work on the CBS News television program 60 Minutes...

    , 60 Minutes correspondent; New York (1997).
  • Conte Brando Brandolini d’Adda, vintner; Venice and Paris (1980).
  • David Brown
    David Brown (producer)
    David Brown was an American film producer.-Early life and career:Brown was born in New York City, the son of Lillian and Edward Fisher Brown. He was best known as the producing partner of Richard D. Zanuck. They were jointly awarded the Irving G...

    , film producer, husband of former Cosmopolitan editor in chief Helen Gurley Brown; New York (1993).
  • Gianni Bulgari
    Bulgari
    Bulgari is an Italian jeweler and luxury goods retailer which has been owned by the French firm LVMH since October 2011. The trademark is usually written "BVLGARI" in the classical Latin alphabet , and is derived from the surname of the company's Greek founder, Sotirio Voulgaris...

    , jewelry designer; Rome (1975).
  • H.R.H. Kyril, Prince of Preslav, investment banker; London (1997).
  • Jeffrey Butler, publishing executive; Los Angeles (1978).
  • John Cahill
    John Cahill
    John Cahill is a former Australian rules football player and coach. During his illustrious career he played football for the Port Adelaide Football Club, then coached Port Adelaide, West Adelaide, South Adelaide in the SANFL and Collingwood Magpies in the VFL.The Port Adelaide Football Club...

    , financier; New York (2001).
  • Michael Cannon, Town & Country editor-at-large; New York (2001).
  • Pierre Cardin
    Pierre Cardin
    Pierre Cardin Cardin was known for his avant-garde style and his Space Age designs. He prefers geometric shapes and motifs, often ignoring the female form. He advanced into unisex fashions, sometimes experimental, and not always practical...

    , fashion designer; Paris (1970).
  • Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair editor; New York (1998).
  • Nino Cerruti
    Nino Cerruti
    Nino Cerruti is an Italian businessman and stylist, among the most famous in the world.He founded his own haute couture house Cerruti in 1967 in Paris...

    , fashion designer; Paris (1973).
  • Comte Frédéric Chandon de Briailles, head of Moët & Chandon vineyard; Paris (1991).
  • Kenneth Chenault
    Kenneth Chenault
    Kenneth Irvine Chenault is an American business executive. He has been the CEO and Chairman of American Express since 2001. He is the third African-American CEO of a Fortune 500 company.-Early life, education, and legal career:...

    , president and C.O.O. of American Express; New York (2000).
  • Francesco Clemente
    Francesco Clemente
    Francesco Clemente is an Italian and American contemporary artist. Influenced by thinkers as diverse as Gregory Bateson, William Blake, Allen Ginsberg, and J Krishnamurti, the art of Francesco Clemente is inclusive and nomadic, crossing many borders, intellectual and geographical.Dividing his time...

    , artist; New York and Naples (1996).
  • George Clooney
    George Clooney
    George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. For his work as an actor, he has received two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award...

    , actor, director, writer, producer; Los Angeles and Lake Como, Italy (2007).
  • Alistair Cooke
    Alistair Cooke
    Alfred Alistair Cooke KBE was a British/American journalist, television personality and broadcaster. Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and Alistair Cooke's America, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theater from 1971 to 1992...

    , journalist, radio and television personality; London (1984).
  • Anderson Cooper
    Anderson Cooper
    Anderson Hays Cooper is an American journalist, author, and television personality. He is the primary anchor of the CNN news show Anderson Cooper 360°. The program is normally broadcast live from a New York City studio; however, Cooper often broadcasts live on location for breaking news stories...

    , anchor, Anderson Cooper 360°; New York (2007).
  • Hernando Courtwright, owner of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel; Beverly Hills (1973).
  • Madison Cox, landscape designer, author; New York (2000).
  • Count Rodolfo Crespi
    Rodolfo Crespi
    Rodolfo Crespi was an Argentine film actor of the classic era.Crespi began acting for film in 1939 and made over 30 film appearances between then and his retirement in 1972 in the film Autocine mon amour....

    , public-relations executive, socialite; Rome and New York (1970).
  • Angelo Donghia
    Angelo Donghia
    Angelo Donghia was an American interior designer.-History:Donghia was born in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, in 1935. He grew up spending time at his father’s tailoring shop which is where his appreciation for design grew and developed...

    , textile designer; New York (1977).
  • The Hon. Angier Biddle Duke
    Angier Biddle Duke
    Angier Biddle Duke had a career which included being a diplomat in the United States foreign service.-Biography:Angier Biddle Duke was born November 30, 1915 in New York City....

    , former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, Spain, Denmark, and Morocco; New York and Southampton (1969).
  • H.R.H. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
    Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
    Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is the husband of Elizabeth II. He is the United Kingdom's longest-serving consort and the oldest serving spouse of a reigning British monarch....

    , husband of Queen Elizabeth II; London (1969).
  • Lapo Elkann
    Lapo Elkann
    Lapo Elkann is a New York-born Italian industrialist, former marketing manager. He is currently the manager of brand promotion at Fiat Automobiles. He is a "global ambassador" of the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer....

    , (2009).
  • Ahmet Ertegun
    Ahmet Ertegun
    Ahmet Ertegün was a Turkish American musician and businessman, best known as the founder and president of Atlantic Records. He also wrote classic blues and pop songs and served as Chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and museum...

    , co-chairman of the Atlantic Records Group; New York, Southampton, Paris, and Bodrum, Turkey. (1986).
  • Kim d’Estainville, French businessman, famous Parisian personality; Paris (1978).
  • Max Evans
    Max Evans
    Maxwell "Max" Evans is a fictional character created by Melinda Metz for the young adults book series Roswell High and adapted by Jason Katims for the 1999-2002 American science fiction television series Roswell...

    , fashion journalist; New York (1974).
  • Robert Evans (producer), film producer; Los Angeles (1975).
  • Douglas Fairbanks Jr., actor, film producer; Los Angeles (1969).
  • John Fairchild
    John Fairchild
    John Fairchild is a retired American basketball player.Fairchild played high school basketball at San Dieguito High School in Encinitas, CA and college basketball at Brigham Young University....

    , W magazine and WWD editor-at-large, author; New York (1988).
  • Tom Fallon, fashion executive; New York (1981).
  • The Hon. Harry Fane, representative for Fulco di Verdura
    Fulco di Verdura
    Fulco di Verdura , or Fulco Santo Stefano della Cerda, Duke of Verdura, and Marquis of Murata la Cerda, was an influential Italian jeweller...

    ; London (1997).
  • Bryan Ferry
    Bryan Ferry
    Bryan Ferry, CBE is an English singer, musician, and songwriter. Ferry came to public prominence in the early 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with the band Roxy Music, who enjoyed a highly successful career with three number one albums and ten singles entering the top ten charts in...

    , musician; London (1990).
  • Christopher Forbes
    Christopher Forbes
    Christopher "Kip" Forbes is Vice Chairman of the Forbes Publishing company. He attended St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts, and Princeton University....

    , vice-chairman of Forbes Inc.; New York (1990).
  • Tom Ford
    Tom Ford
    Thomas Carlyle "Tom" Ford is an American fashion designer and film director. He gained international fame for his turnaround of the Gucci fashion house and the creation of the Tom Ford label before directing the Oscar-nominated film A Single Man.-Early life :Tom Ford was born August 27, 1961 in...

    , fashion designer; London (2004).
  • James Galanos
    James Galanos
    James Galanos is an American fashion designer, widely considered to be one the world's foremost 20th century couturiers.-Early life:James Galanos was born September 20, 1924 in a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the only son of Greek-born parents...

    , fashion designer; Los Angeles (1982).
  • John Galliher, socialite; New York (1973).
  • Comte Paul de Ganay, French and Argentinean businessman, polo player; Paris (1991).
  • Count Manfredi della Gherardesca, art adviser, curator (2009).
  • Giancarlo Giammetti
    Giancarlo Giammetti
    Giancarlo Giammetti is the honorary president of the Valentino Fashion House. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 2006.- Biography :...

    , honorary chairman of Valentino; Rome (2006).
  • Sir John Gielgud
    John Gielgud
    Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH was an English actor, director, and producer. A descendant of the renowned Terry acting family, he achieved early international acclaim for his youthful, emotionally expressive Hamlet which broke box office records on Broadway in 1937...

    , actor; London (1982).
  • Frank Gifford
    Frank Gifford
    Francis Newton "Frank" Gifford is a Hall of Fame former American football player and American sportscaster.-Early life:Gifford was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Lola Mae and Weldon Gifford, an oil driller....

    , broadcasting great, former N.F.L. star; New York (1975).
  • Comte Hubert de Givenchy
    Hubert de Givenchy
    Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy is a French aristocrat and fashion designer who founded The House of Givenchy in 1952. He is famous for having designed much of the personal and professional wardrobe of Audrey Hepburn, as well as clothing for clients such as Jacqueline Kennedy...

    , fashion designer; Paris (1970).
  • Senator Barry Goldwater
    Barry Goldwater
    Barry Morris Goldwater was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party's nominee for President in the 1964 election. An articulate and charismatic figure during the first half of the 1960s, he was known as "Mr...

    , politician; Phoenix (1976).
  • Jacques Grange
    Jacques Grange
    -Biography :After completing his training at the École Boulle and the École Camondo, Jacques Grange made a career as a decorator in France and abroad from the 1970s. His main customers included Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, for whom he decorated the "Château Gabriel", in Benerville-sur-Mer,...

    , interior designer; Paris (1994).
  • Cary Grant
    Cary Grant
    Archibald Alexander Leach , better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English actor who later took U.S. citizenship...

    , actor; Los Angeles (1969).
  • H.R.H Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece
    Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece
    Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece, is the eldest son and heir apparent of Constantine II, who was King of Greece from 1964 to 1973....

    , investment-fund manager; London (2008).
  • Robert L. Green
    Robert L. Green
    Robert L. Green was the fashion director for Playboy Magazine from the 1950s through the 1970s. He was made Vanity Fair's best-dressed man of the year for 1972.- External links :* by Jerry Williams* in New York Times....

    , Playboy fashion director; New York (1972).
  • Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, Vogue editor; New York (1971).
  • Charles Gwathmey
    Charles Gwathmey
    Charles Gwathmey was an American architect. He was a principal at Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, as well as one of the five architects identified as The New York Five in 1969...

    , architect; New York (2001).
  • George Hamilton
    George Hamilton (actor)
    George Stevens Hamilton is an American film and television actor.-Early life:Hamilton was the youngest son of bandleader George "Spike" Hamilton and his first wife, Ann Stevens . He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and lived in Blytheville, Arkansas...

    , actor; Los Angeles (1976).
  • Mark Hampton, interior designer; New York (1991).
  • Dorukhan Altinisik, doctor; New York (2008)
  • Phillips Hathaway, European-furniture expert; New York (2000).
  • Edward W. Hayes, attorney; New York (1994).
  • Reinaldo Herrera, Vanity Fair
    Vanity Fair (magazine)
    Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...

     contributing editor; New York and Caracas (1983).
  • Charles Henry Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip
    Baron Hindlip
    Baron Hindlip, of Hindlip in the County of Worcester and of Alsop-en-le-Dale in the County of Derby, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1886 for the businessman and Conservative politician Sir Henry Allsopp, 1st Baronet. He was head of the brewing firm of Samuel...

    , former Christie’s chairman; London (1999).
  • Gregory Hines
    Gregory Hines
    Gregory Oliver Hines was an American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer.-Early years:Born in New York City, Hines and his older brother Maurice started dancing at an early age, studying with choreographer Henry LeTang...

    , actor, dancer; New York (1993).
  • David Hockney
    David Hockney
    David Hockney, CH, RA, is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire and Kensington, London....

    , artist; Los Angeles (1986).
  • James Hoge, Foreign Affairs editor in chief; New York (1987).
  • Fred Hughes
    Fred Hughes
    Fred Hughes is an R&B singer. He was born in Arkansas, but moved to Compton, California. He first recorded while a student at Compton High School as a member of The Cymbals in 1962, and worked as a member of a band, the Creators...

    , Andy Warhol’s business manager and executor; New York (1987).
  • Peter Jennings
    Peter Jennings
    Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM was a Canadian American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer...

    , ABC news anchor; New York (1989).
  • Steven Kaufman, fashion executive; New York (1988).
  • Horace Kelland, writer; Charleston and Fishers Island (1975).
  • H.R.H. Prince Michael of Kent
    Prince Michael of Kent
    Prince Michael of Kent is a grandson of King George V and Queen Mary, making him a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. He is also the first cousin once removed of Prince Phillip. Prince Michael occasionally carries out royal duties representing the Queen at some functions in Commonwealth realms outside...

    ; London (1999).
  • Calvin Klein
    Calvin Klein
    Calvin Richard Klein is an American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc. in 1968. In addition to clothing, Klein has also given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewelry....

    , fashion designer; New York (1983).
  • Henry Kravis
    Henry Kravis
    Henry R. Kravis is an American businessman and private equity investor. He is the co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a private equity firm with over $62 billion in assets as of 2011. He has an estimated net worth of $3.7 billion as of September 2011, ranked by Forbes as the 88th richest...

    , financier; New York (2000).
  • Kenneth Jay Lane
    Kenneth Jay Lane
    Kenneth Jay Lane is an American costume jewelry designer.- Biography :Born in Detroit, Michigan he is an alumnus of Detroit Central High School, the University of Michigan and the Rhode Island School of Design....

    , jewelry designer, host; New York (1974).
  • Bernard Lanvin, Lanvin
    Lanvin (clothing)
    Lanvin is a high fashion house founded by Jeanne Lanvin.-History:Lanvin made such beautiful clothes for her daughter that they began to attract the attention of a number of wealthy people who requested copies for their own children...

     Castilo owner; Paris (1970).
  • Ralph Lauren
    Ralph Lauren
    Ralph Lauren is an American fashion designer and business executive; best known for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand.-Early life:...

    , fashion designer; New York (1995).
  • Alexander Liberman
    Alexander Liberman
    Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman was a Russian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at Condé Nast Publications.-Biography:When his father took a post advising the Soviet government, the family moved to Moscow...

    , Condé Nast editorial director, painter, photographer; New York (1981).
  • Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield
    Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield
    Thomas Patrick John Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield was an English photographer. He inherited the Earldom of Lichfield in 1960 from his paternal grandfather. In his professional practice he was known as Patrick Lichfield.- Career :Lord Lichfield was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, and joined the...

    , photographer; London (1971).
  • The Hon. John V. Lindsay; former mayor of New York City (1976).
  • The Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr, statesman; Boston (1970).
  • H.S.H. Prince Rupert zu Loewenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, investment manager; London (2001).
  • Wynton Marsalis
    Wynton Marsalis
    Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences...

    , musician; New York (1999).
  • Patrick McCarthy
    Patrick McCarthy (publisher)
    Patrick McCarthy is the chairman and editorial director of W magazine and Women's Wear Daily. He got his start at Fairchild Publications at WWD in London in the late seventies.-External links:* *...

    , W magazine editor in chief; New York (2001).
  • Henry McIlhenny, art collector, philanthropist; Philadelphia (1981).
  • Rafael de Medina, 20th Duke of Feria, Spanish aristocrat; Madrid (2007).
  • Sonny Mehta
    Sonny Mehta
    Ajai Singh "Sonny" Mehta is a publisher and editor-in-chief of Alfred A Knopf.He was educated at Lawrence School, Sanawar. He is referenced in the musical The Last Five Years and is well known for moving in with Douglas Adams in order to make sure he finished his book So Long, and Thanks for All...

    , Alfred A. Knopf
    Alfred A. Knopf
    Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house, founded by Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. in 1915. It was acquired by Random House in 1960 and is now part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group at Random House. The publishing house is known for its borzoi trademark , which was designed by co-founder...

     president and editor in chief; New York (1993).
  • David Metcalfe
    David Metcalfe
    David Eric Metcalfe is a fictional character in the British ITV soap opera Emmerdale. He is played by Matthew Wolfenden. He is the illegitimate son of Eric Pollard-2006–09:...

    , insurance executive; London (1996).
  • Philip Miller
    Philip Miller
    Philip Miller FRS was a Scottish botanist.Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1722 until he was pressured to retire shortly before his death...

    , C.E.O. of Saks Fifth Avenue
    Saks Fifth Avenue
    Saks Fifth Avenue is a luxury American specialty store owned and operated by Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprises , a subsidiary of Saks Incorporated. It competes in the high-end specialty store market in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, i.e. 'the 3 B's' Bergdorf, Barneys, Bloomingdale's and Lord & Taylor...

    ; New York (1995).
  • Ottavio Missoni, fashion designer; Milan (1982).
  • Issey Miyake
    Issey Miyake
    is a Japanese fashion designer. He is known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances.-Life and career:Miyake was born 22 April 1938 in Hiroshima, Japan. As a seven year-old, he witnessed and survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. He studied...

    , fashion designer; Tokyo (1987).
  • Beppe Modenese, fashion publicist, Moda Italiana founder, president of the National Chamber for Italian fashion; Milan (1989).
  • Paul Newman
    Paul Newman
    Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver and auto racing enthusiast...

    , actor, racecar driver; Westport (1991).
  • David Niven
    David Niven
    James David Graham Niven , known as David Niven, was a British actor and novelist, best known for his roles as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and Sir Charles Lytton, a.k.a. "the Phantom", in The Pink Panther...

    , actor; Los Angeles (1982).
  • James Niven
    James Niven
    James Niven was a Scottish physician most famous for his work during the Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918 as Manchester's Medical Officer of Health. He held the position for 28 years , until he retired. He held the degrees of M.A., M.B. and LL.D. He had been Oldham's Medical Officer of Health from...

    , Sotheby’s senior vice president, son of David Niven; New York (1994).
  • Colonel Serge Obolensky
    Serge Obolensky
    Sergei Platonovich 5th Knyaz Obolensky-Neledinsky-Meletzky was a Russian Prince and Vice Chairman of the Board of Hilton Hotels Corporation....

    , businessman, Russian prince, World War II hero; New York (1970).
  • The Rt Hon Sir Angus Ogilvy
    Angus Ogilvy
    Sir Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, was a British businessman best known as the husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent, a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II....

    , brother of the Earl of Airlie, husband of Princess Alexandra
    Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy
    Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy is the youngest granddaughter of King George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck. She is the widow of Sir Angus Ogilvy...

    ; London (1972).
  • André Oliver, fashion designer; London (1973).
  • Comte Hubert d’Ornano, C.E.O. of Sisley cosmetics; Paris (1995).
  • Norman Parkinson
    Norman Parkinson
    Norman Parkinson, CBE was a celebrated English portrait and fashion photographer.-Biography:Parkinson was born in London, and educated at Westminster School. He began his career in 1931 as an apprentice to the court photographers Speaight and Sons Ltd...

    , fashion photographer; London (1970).
  • I.S.V. Patcévitch, Condé Nast
    Condé Nast Publications
    Condé Nast, a division of Advance Publications, is a magazine publisher. In the U.S., it produces 18 consumer magazines, including Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Vogue, as well as four business-to-business publications, 27 websites, and more than 50 apps...

     president; New York (1970).
  • Gregory Peck
    Gregory Peck
    Eldred Gregory Peck was an American actor.One of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1980s. His notable performances include that of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won an...

    , actor; Los Angeles (1983).
  • Senator Charles Percy
    Charles H. Percy
    Charles Harting "Chuck" Percy was president of the Bell & Howell Corporation from 1949 to 1964. He was elected United States Senator from Illinois in 1966, re-elected through his term ending in 1985; he concentrated on business and foreign relations...

    , politician, former chairman of Bell & Howell; Chicago (1981).
  • Charles Pfeiffer, American war hero, model, journalist, actor, television-commercial producer; New York (1989).
  • Alessandro (Alex) Pirounis, young entrepreneur, art dealer, socialite; Rome, Hong Kong, London, and Athens (2010).
  • Sidney Poitier
    Sidney Poitier
    Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE is a Bahamian American actor, film director, author, and diplomat.In 1963, Poitier became the first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field...

    , actor, film director; Los Angeles (1972).
  • Comte Jean-Charles de Ravenel, businessman, socialite; Lyford Cay and Paris (1994).
  • President Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

    ; Bel Air (1986).
  • Alexis von Rosenberg, Baron de Redé, financier; Paris (1972).
  • Samuel P. Reed, former Heritage Press publisher; New York (1985).
  • Oscar de la Renta
    Oscar de la Renta
    Oscar de la Renta is one of the world's leading fashion designers. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1973.-Career:...

    , fashion designer; New York, Kent, Connecticut, and Punta Cana (1973).
  • Senator Abraham Ribicoff, politician; New York and Cornwall Bridge (1985).
  • Pat Riley
    Pat Riley
    Patrick James "Pat" Riley is an American professional basketball executive, and a retired coach and player in the NBA. Currently, he is team president of the Miami Heat. Widely regarded as one of the greatest NBA coaches of all time, Riley has served as the head coach of five championship teams...

    , former head coach and current president of the Miami Heat basketball team; Miami (1994).
  • Baron David René de Rothschild
    David René de Rothschild
    David René James de Rothschild is a banker and a member of the French branch of the Rothschild family. He is the chairman of Rothschilds Continuation Holdings, a Swiss holding company...

    , member of the banking family; Paris (1991).
  • Baron Eric de Rothschild, member of the banking family; Paris (1970).
  • Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, member of the banking family; London (1999).
  • Baron Guy de Rothschild
    Guy de Rothschild
    Baron Guy Édouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild was a French banker and member of the Rothschild family. He chaired the bank Rothschild Frères from 1967 to 1979, when it was nationalized by the French government, and maintained possessions in other French and foreign companies including Imerys...

    , member of the banking family; Paris (1985).
  • H.E. Carlos Ortiz de Rozas, Argentinean ambassador to the Court of St. James's
    Court of St. James's
    The Court of St James's is the royal court of the United Kingdom. It previously had the same function in the Kingdom of England and in the Kingdom of Great Britain .-Overview:...

    ; Buenos Aires (1984).
  • Yves Saint Laurent (designer), fashion designer; Paris (1975).
  • Robert Sakowitz, specialty retailer, consultant-firm executive; Houston (1975).
  • Fernando Sanchez
    Fernando Sanchez
    Fernando Sánchez was a Spanish fashion designer. He was known for his provocative lingerie collections, which, though designed for elegant boudoirs, were often worn in public. Sanchez was awarded several Coty fashion awards, as well as a Council of Fashion Designers of America Award in...

    , fashion designer; New York and Marrakech (1996).
  • Julio Mario Santo Domingo
    Julio Mario Santo Domingo
    Julio Mario Santo Domingo Pumarejo was a Colombian businessman and patriarch of the wealthy Santo Domingo family. He was the son of Mario Santo Domingo and Beatriz Pumarejo...

    , financier, art collector; New York, Paris, Bogotá, and Barranquilla (1990).
  • Joel Schumacher
    Joel Schumacher
    Joel T. Schumacher is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.-Early life:Schumacher was born in New York City, the son of Marian and Francis Schumacher. His mother was a Swedish Jew, and his father was a Baptist from Knoxville, Tennessee, who died when Joel was four years old...

    , film director; Los Angeles (1977).
  • Peter Sharp
    Peter Sharp
    Peter Sharp is an Australian professional rugby league coach. He is currently the assistant coach of the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in Australia's National Rugby League....

    , real-estate executive; New York (1988).
  • Gil Shiva, businessman, socialite; New York (1995).
  • Bobby Short
    Bobby Short
    Robert Waltrip "Bobby" Short was an American cabaret singer and pianist, best known for his interpretations of songs by popular composers of the first half of the 20th century such as Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Noel Coward and George and Ira Gershwin.He...

    , musician; New York (1986).
  • H.M. King Juan Carlos of Spain; Madrid (1987).
  • John Stefanidis, interior designer; London and Patmos, Greece (1995).
  • Sting, musician; Wiltshire, England (2001).
  • Luke Winsland, Digital Media Designer; Liverpool (2010).
  • André Leon Talley
    André Leon Talley
    André Leon Talley is the former American editor-at-large for Vogue magazine, listed as Contributing Editor in the April 2010 masthead. Talley has been a front-row regular at fashion shows in New York, Paris, London and Milan for more than 25 years...

    , Vogue editor-at-large; New York (1994).
  • Taki Theodoracopulos
    Taki Theodoracopulos
    Taki Theodoracopulos , originally named Panagiotis Theodoracopulos is a Greek/American journalist, socialite, and political commentator.Better known as Taki, diminutive for Panagiotis, he is a Greek-born journalist and writer living in New York City, London and Switzerland...

    , journalist; New York, Gstaad, Athens, and London (2001).
  • Chip Tolbert, fashion journalist; New York (1974).
  • Van Day Truex, Tiffany & Co. design director; New York (1974).
  • Luigi d’Urso, Italian businessman, man-about-town; Paris (1997).
  • Philippe Venet, fashion designer; Paris (1973).
  • Yves Vidal, Knoll furniture company president; Tangier (1977).
  • Charles, Prince of Wales
    Charles, Prince of Wales
    Prince Charles, Prince of Wales is the heir apparent and eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Since 1958 his major title has been His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. In Scotland he is additionally known as The Duke of Rothesay...

    ; London (1980).
  • Charlie Watts
    Charlie Watts
    Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts is an English drummer, best known as a member of The Rolling Stones. He is also the leader of a jazz band, a record producer, commercial artist, and horse breeder.-Early life:...

    , musician; London (2006).
  • Denzel Washington
    Denzel Washington
    Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and film producer. He first rose to prominence when he joined the cast of the medical drama, St. Elsewhere, playing Dr...

    , actor; Los Angeles (1998).
  • John Weitz, fashion designer; New York (1970).
  • Galen Weston
    Galen Weston
    Willard Gordon Galen Weston, OC, OOnt , is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He is the Chairman and President of George Weston Limited...

    , George Weston Ltd. chairman; Toronto (1993).
  • Paul Wilmot, publicist; New York (1993).
  • H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor
    Duke of Windsor
    The title Duke of Windsor was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1937 for Prince Edward, the former King Edward VIII, following his abdication in December 1936. The dukedom takes its name from the town where Windsor Castle, a residence of English monarchs since the Norman Conquest, is...

    , former King of England, abdicated throne for Wallis Simpson; Paris (1968).
  • Tom Wolfe
    Tom Wolfe
    Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr. is a best-selling American author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.-Early life and education:...

    , writer; New York (1984).
  • Michael York
    Michael York (actor)
    Michael York, OBE is an English actor.-Early life:York was born in Fulmer, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the son of Florence Edith May , a musician; and Joseph Gwynne Johnson, a Llandovery born Welsh ex-Royal Artillery British Army officer and executive with Marks and Spencer department stores...

    , actor; London (1977).
  • H.R.H. Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia
    Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia (b. 1958)
    -External links:* * at thePeerage.com* at chivalricorders.org*...

    , jewelry designer; New York (1994).
  • Daniel Zarem, fashion retailer; New York (1978).
  • Jerome Zipkin, socialite, real-estate executive; New York (1985).


The American magazine Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...

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