D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A took to referring to Zipkin as “The Social Moth” instead. This insult was amusing enough to people in the know until the Eye started referring his friend Mrs. Bloomingdale in pictures with him as “Mrs. Moth.” Mrs. Bloomingdale was very upset by this designation but also intimidated by Fairchild’s media power. Unable or unwilling to confront Fairchild himself, she called upon her friend Luis Estevez, who enjoyed an uncontroversial relationship with the editor/publisher, to persuade him to leave her out of the “joke.” And so it was. The great success of Women’s Wear was affirmed
by the mainstream dailies and magazines. Among the ladies of that that picked up on the subtime whose jects and public impeople whose age benefitnames apted the most peared in the from this paper. Those raising of fashionable the designladies who ers’ world also loved were socialthe personal ites who had (and favora personable) publical interest ity shed on in fashion them began such as Babe to find them- HR IN PLACE CLEAN Paley, Gloria selves in the UP AS NECESSARY Guinness, front rows of M a r e l l a the shows of the designers’ collections as Agnelli (pictured above), well as the subject of fashion Mona von Bismarck, Deeda articles in the newspapers Blair, Evangeline Bruce,
Pat Buckley, Nan Kempner, Robin Duke, Louise Grunwald, Anne Ford Johnson, Mary McFadden, Bunny Mellon, Merle Oberon, Judy Peabody, Lynn Wyatt, Jayne Wrightsman, Chessy Rayner, Anne Slater, Rosita Winston, Jacqueline de Ribes, Annette de la Renta, Helen Rochas, Aline de Romanones, Pauline Potter de Rothschild, Lee Radziwill, and, of course, her sister, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who shocked the world when as a widow married the Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis in 1968. Many were already well known in the world of society but their familiari-
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Valerie Clement at her barn in Saratoga