“When Miss Gloria Laura Vanderbilt married Mr. Pasquale di Cicco in California last month, she wore a wedding-dress by Howard Greer, who also designed her trousseau. She is dark and beautiful, seventeen years old, daughter of the late Reginald C. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Vanderbilt, and great-great-granddaughter of the famous Commodore Vanderbilt, founder of the clan.”Like the true New Yorker she was, Gloria Vanderbilt, who died today at age 95, could say: “I did it my way.
At 17 she married the good-looking and mysterious actor’s agent Pat DiCiccio. Three marriages would follow, and in time, Vanderbilt became a mother to four sons: Stan and Christopher Stokowski, and Carter and Anderson Cooper. Vanderbilt was a familiar face in Vogue from the time of her birth, in 1924. Vanderbilt sat for photographers including Cecil Beaton, Horst P. Horst, Deborah Turbeville, and Richard Avedon.
Vanderbilt, who became an American designer herself when she entered the fashion arena with a popular line of denim at the beginning of the designer jean phenomenon, was often snapped in pieces by other home-grown talents like Mainbocher and Geoffrey Beene. She was “a spirited and decisive fashion personality,” and clotheshorse, wrote Vogue.
Though born with a silver spoon in her mouth, Vanderbilt chose to become a career woman. Perhaps her need to fill her life with activity and achievement was a response to her early abandonment. However that may be, when she filled her life with color and adventures, she filled that of the public too, who followed the ups and downs of her journey for nine decades.
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