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Who Was C. Z. Guest? The Most Elegant—And Enigmatic—of Truman Capote’s Swans, #culture ,#tv-and-movies ,#fashion, #ad

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C.Z. Guest at the Knickerbocker Ball 1952

I’ve just browsed through hundreds of photographs of C.Z. Guest, the founder of WASP style and an all-American actress, author, horsewoman, clotheshorse and socialite. Then I started to see them in chronological order – from her younger years to an image of her being helped up the stairs at eighty years old in a gold gown and pearls at the Met gala. My god, ageing has never looked so tragic! Which has me thinking. Is there any point in holding out for designer clothes until I’m older just…

A picture retrospective of the late socialite's signature style.

Born Lucy Douglas Cochrane, she became C.Z. Guest on March 8, 1947, when she married Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, the son of…

CZ Guest in her New York Apartment.

Wearing oatmeal tweed Mainbocher, ph. Irving Penn 1952 A muse to artists like Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali, C.Z. Guest was one of the first true fashion icons. The socialite who also became a fash…

As the release of the much-anticipated Feud: Capote vs. The Swans draws closer, Tatler looks back at the life of one of the most restrained and enigmatic in Capote's bank of swans. Her impact on American style was utterly definitive – and yet she wore her renown with a forgetful ease that makes her all too easy to remember