Marie Menken
Marie Menken was an American experimental filmmaker and socialite. She appeared in Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls.
Marie Menken was an American experimental filmmaker and socialite. She appeared in Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls.
Gerald and Sara Murphywere wealthy, expatriate Americans who moved to the French Riviera in the early 20th century and who, with their generous hospitality and flair for parties, created a vibrant social circle, particularly in the 1920s, that included a great number of artists and writers of the Lost Generation.
Daphne Guinness is prominent in the fashion world as a style icon, journalist and noted collector of haute couture. The close relationship between her and married French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy has become something of an open secret known and acknowledged by most American society columnists.
Gunter Sachs was a German playboy. As a young man he became a sportsman, then gained international fame as a documentary filmmaker, documentary photographer, and third husband of Brigitte Bardot.
Hardy Rodenstock is a former publisher and manager of pop and Schlager music in Germany and is a prominent wine collector, connoisseur and trader, with a special interest in old and rare wines. He became famous for an uncanny ability to track down old and very rare wines, and for arranging extravagant wine tastings featuring these wines.
On its first publication in 1979, The Gentlemen's Clubs of London rapidly established itself as a widely sought-after and quoted work around the world among those intrigued by and participating in the rarefied world of the famous clubs of London society. This book work tells of the ambiance and grace of the clubs, their privacies and eccentricities, and of the yarns, disputes, and scandals to which they have given rise.
The Osmothèque is the only international archive of perfumery and has a collection of 4.000 scents created from mid-1800s until today.
Mark Buxton is the man behind many of the Comme des Garcons fragrances.
The Edsor Kronen tie factory, founded in 1909, is located in the Kreuzberg District of Berlin. Italian silk and cashmere are used to create all Edsor Kronen collections which comprise ties, ascots, scarves, cummerbunds and made-to-measure dressing gowns.
London International Vintners Exchange is an exchange for investment-grade wine.