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Why famed society decorator Billy Baldwin was summoned to Greece just days after Jackie married Ari Onassis.

The secrets and scandals behind the writer's circle of high-profile women

Michael Knox Beran s WASPS: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy explores the scandals of US society exploring figures including Francis Sedgwick and Babe Paley

"I was not looking to find the Mona von Bismarcks of today," Demna Gvasalia, creative director of Balenciaga told WWD of his new fall couture collection. Emhoff, with her signature halo of unruly curls, wire-rim glasses, tattoos, and penchant for crochet, is no 5th Avenue swan. And for every sculptural evening gown made for candlelit rooms and celebrity-studded galas Gvasalia presented, there were more approachable pieces: coats, sweaters, button-downs, even denim. On the surface it may seem r...

Partners Danielle Licata and Jeff Lasota consistently write orders for about 250 brands and limit each style to one size run at most.

Halston was a Midwesterner who revolutionized his industry with comfortable deconstructed gowns, washable Ultraseude shirt dresses and a minimalist, clean

The new Netflix show has been derided as “an inaccurate, fictionalised account” – here, the legendary designer’s friends, colleagues and associates set the record straight, providing an insight into the character of a man who was larger than life

The final and fifth episode of Halston, the new Netflix miniseries starring Ewan McGregor as the mononymous designer, is named for the fashion designer’s feared adversary: “Critics.” The finale takes place after Halston’s interest in orgies and cocaine binges, and a perilous licensing agreement, have overtaken his life. The designer asks his last gal standing, a secretary named Sassy who is mostly charged with procuring cocaine for the office, to read him the reviews of his latest coll...

Original it girls: From Andy Warhols muse to Jackie Kennedys sister Truman Capote was known to surround himself with elegant, stylish high-society women - dubbed his ‘Swans.  From the rags-to-riches story of Gloria Guinness, who married into the brewing family, to Vogue fashion editor Barbara ‘Babe’ Paley and Marella Agnelli, who wed the playboy heir to the Fiat automobile empire, here we recall the original it girls whom Capote once called friends. © Provided by Daily Mail

The final and fifth episode of Halston, the new Netflix miniseries starring Ewan McGregor as the mononymous designer, is named for the fashion designer’s feared adversary: “Critics.” The finale takes place after Halston’s interest in orgies and cocaine binges, and a perilous licensing agreement, have overtaken his life. The designer asks his last gal standing, a secretary named Sassy who is mostly charged with procuring cocaine for the office, to read him the reviews of his latest coll...