“Diana Vreeland Memos: The Vogue Years” is a delightful new book giving a fascinating insight into the legendary Vogue editor’s mind and work in the 1960s.
Truman Capote, Gloria Vanderdbilt, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Angie Dickinson, Betsy Bloomingdale and Adolfo were some of the 90 guests who attended the September 9, 1971 wedding of Prentis Cobb Hale to Denise Minnelli in San Francisco.
After attending a fundraiser in Atherton on October 21, 2010 for Kamala Harris, President Obama went to dinner at the home of Marissa Mayer and Zachary Bogue
Long before SFLuxe.com, there was Life Magazine to showcase the glamorous gowns worn during the opening of the San Francisco Opera, as in this item from 1955.
Built in 1923 by Gustave Albert Lansburgh, Kenneth MacDonald, and Maurice C. Couchot, the apartment building at 850 Powell Street, known as The Francesca, is a Nob Hill landmark.
People tend to forget that Giorgio Armani began his career exclusively as a designer of menswear, and that his early breakthrough as a designer was in the way he loosened up the man’s suit.