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C.Z. Guest at the Knickerbocker Ball 1952

As Raymond Chandler remarked of his femme fatale in The Long Goodbye: "There are blondes, and then there are blondes." Truman Capote on C.Z. Guest C.Z. Guest photographed by Cecil Beaton. 1953 Weekend Reading for you from RARE vintage. Read on... I first saw C.Z. Guest when she was giving a talk on Long Island's Gold Coast about gardening. You know, it is funny, but I can't remember what she was wearing. It was what she was saying that was so interesting. She said that her favorite garden…

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…

C.Z. Guest's daughterand Andy Warhol's darlingshows off her fabled family home.

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

With her best-of-breed blonde beauty and debutante goes wild (to a point) past, C. Z. Guest was Daisy Buchanan without the dark side. In later years we knew her as a best-selling garden guru and au…

C.Z. Guest's daughterand Andy Warhol's darlingshows off her fabled family home.

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…