Glamour

Langhorne sisters

The beautiful Langhorne sisters lived at the pinnacle of society from the end of the Civil War through the Second World War. Born in Virginia to a family impoverished by the Civil War, Lizzie, Irene, Nancy, Phyllis, and Nora eventually made their way across two continents, leaving rich husbands, fame, adoration, and scandal in their wake. At the center of the story is Nancy, who married Waldorf Astor, one of the richest men in the world. Heroic, hilarious, magnetically charming, and a bully, Nancy became Britain's first female MP. The beautiful Irene married Charles Dana Gibson and was the model for the Gibson Girl.

Seattle Slew

Seattle Slew was an American thoroughbred racehorse who won the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1977, the tenth of eleven horses to accomplish the feat. He remains the only horse to win the Triple Crown while undefeated.

Joe Dallesandro

Raised by foster parents in Brooklyn and Long Island, the young Dallesandro was expelled from school for punching the principal, which was followed by a spate of petty gangland crime. He had a successful escape from a rehabilitation center for boys in New York's Catskill Mountains, where he had been held for a year after crashing a stolen car. A pioneering figure in the sexual revolution, he was a teenage tearaway turned icon of rebellious youth and sexuality. Perhaps now best known as the torso on The Smiths' debut album or as that bulge on the cover of The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers.

Harry Winston

Harry Winston's father Jacob started a small jewelry business after he and Harry's mother immigrated to the United States from Ukraine. He worked in his father's shop growing up, and legend has it that when he was just 12 years old, he recognized a two-carat emerald in a pawn shop, bought it for 25 cents, and sold it two days later for $800.

Jacqueline de Ribes

Jacqueline de Ribes is a French socialite. By the age of 25, she was appearing on the lists of best-dressed women, having consistently worn haute couture clothing all her life.

Iris Origo

Like an American heiress in a tale by Henry James, Iris Origo was born into a world of unfair advantages of education, money, environment, and opportunity. She used her birthright wisely, traveling the world, studying art with Berenson, and, with her Italian husband, improving the land and the lot of the peasants in the Val d'Orcia of Tuscany. She tells her life story in the book Images & Shadows.

Spy Magazine

The editors at Spy understood celebrity culture, which is why they became arguably the most influential magazine of the late 20th century, or, in Dave Eggers' words "cruel, brilliant, beautifully written and perfectly designed, and feared by all." Combining an elegant house style, barbed satire, and a healthy dose of class-rage, Spy inspired a radical tonal shift in American journalism just in time for the arrival of a perfectly suited new platform: The Internet.

Harry’s Bar

Harry's Bar is a legendary bar in Venice, Italy.

Joan Burstein

Joan Burstein has owned and run London’s most influential boutique Browns since she founded it in 1970.

Tatiana Cotliar

Tatiana Cotliar is an Argentine model.

Opus

Encyclopædia of the sublime