News about Gloria Vanderbilt

Upscale NYC lingerie store beloved by Jackie O, Joan Crawford and Madonna is forced to close because of soaring rents

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 29, 2024
An upscale New York City lingerie store which once served A-listers is closing because of the high costs of rent. The Upper East Side's iconic store called Peress has been open for more than 90 years. During its reign, the luxury store was beloved by the likes of Jackie O, Joan Crawford, Barbara Walters, Madonna, Diana Vreeland, Brooke Astor, and Gloria Vanderbilt. The beloved Madison Avenue shop carried European lingerie, pajamas, nightgowns, socks and slippers. Prior to its August 15 closing date, the boutique advertised a sale at 50 per cent off, and its door sign read: 'Only one customer at a time and 10 minutes only.'

Rarely-seen photos capture A-list celebrities - including sultry Jayne Mansfield, lounging Diane Von Furstenberg and green-thumb Martha Stewart - over the decades

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 22, 2024
A new exhibition is showcasing the eye-catching photos of celebrities like Gloria Vanderbilt, Martha Stewart , and John Lennon and Yoko Ono over four decades. The stunning images, captured by photographer Susan Wood, have been unveiled at Laughlin Gallery in Highland Park, Illinois. The exhibition features 20 photographs from 1950 to 1984 that capture the 'essence of an era marked by social upheaval and transformation,' a press release said.

Celebrity cameos. Backstage boozing. Fights over the front row… LYNNE FRANKS on how she started London Fashion Week in a tent 40 years ago

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 15, 2024
Months of planning had resulted in this moment. Months of cajoling designers, models, resp., and style watchers, have all lent their help - and money - to a hitherto unintentional venture: a show that exhibits the best of British fashion under one roof. Or, rather, one square of canvas. I felt a surge of pride and pure excitement as I watched the last touches being applied to the huge tent that would host the first ever London Fashion Week. I knew some of these people had been skeptical, but as I stood at the back of this amazing new space, I hoped that this would be the start of something amazing.

Gloria Vanderbilt, Anderson Cooper's heiress, created a 'grief map' to help him clear out her apartment after his death, with a date set to the day of the actor's 1988 suicide date

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 13, 2023
Gloria Vanderbilt, Anderson Cooper's heiress, created a mysterious 'grief map' to help him clear out her house after her death, which also included a calendar that was dated to the date of his brother's 1988 suicide. Since his father's, brother, and mother's death four years ago, Cooper, 56, has been on a slow journey to discover his family's forgotten memories and treasures. He began clearing out his Upper East Side apartment, and she started to find notes about him, which she described as a sort of 'treasure hunt' for his grief.

Anderson Cooper says his late mother Gloria Vanderbilt offered to serve as SURROGATE for his baby when she was 85 until he told her it was the 'most Oepidal, weird thing'

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 23, 2023
Anderson Cooper, who was 85 years old, said he wanted to be a surrogate for his son, Wyatt, but he flattened the theory and called it the most'most Oedipal strange thing'. I was like, 'Mum, that's the craziest, most Oedipal weird thing,' he said. Please! And now for you, Mum, it's fed up. For the next 18 years, we will have been on the front page of the New York Post. Are you kidding me?'Gloria came from a long line of New York's most influential family, the Vanderbilts and married Wyatt Cooper in 1963

Anderson Cooper's Vanderbilt cousin is penning her OWN memoir about disgraced dynasty

www.dailymail.co.uk, June 3, 2023
A scion of the scandal-plagued Vanderbilt family has written a tell-all about her time growing up in the dynastic family, which was once the richest in the United States. Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin, 44, is a writer and actress who descended on Cornelius Vanderbilt's eighth generation, and her book, according to her cousin, CNN's Anderson Cooper, is a more accurate representation of her cousin's Cornelius Vanderbilt's Cornelius Vanderbilt. Anderson is the son of the late socialite Gloria Vanderbilt's book Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall Of America's Greatest Dynasty in 2021. Consuelo told DailyMail.com that Anderson's version of the events would not have been 'inside information' because his mother, Gloria, was 'ostracized' from the family.

The most exclusive private clubs in NYC are among the city's most exclusive private clubs

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 27, 2022
Femail takes you inside one of New York City's most exclusive private social clubs that have been shrouded in secrecy since their inception in the Gilded Age. The Union Club (inset) is Manhattan's oldest private club that still prohibits female participation. It sparked a scandal during the Civil War. Dwight Eisenhower, Ulysses S. Grant, William Randolph Hearst, John Jacob Astor, and Cornelius Vanderbilt are among the notable figures of the years. Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, and Liza Minelli are among the famous actors to have jumped on players. It was established in 1888 by Edwin Booth, a well-known Shakespearian actor who was the older brother of the man who fired President Abraham Lincoln. The assassin's portrait is also on display in the club's upper living quarters. The Colony (inset) is NYC's oldest female-only group established by Astors, Morgans, and Whitneys. Husbands and visiting male guests were once relegated to 'the strangers room.' Later, as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's 50th Birthday at the clubhouse, he ordered four of his guests to be wiretapped. The River Club is so discreet and exclusive that it has forbidden the use of its name in the media, and it has refused to honor Gloria Vanderbilt, Richard Nixon, and Joan Crawford as members.

Anderson Cooper recalls how his mother Gloria Vanderbilt was haunted by his brother Carter's suicide

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 1, 2022
During an interview with his friend and colleague Christiane Amanpour on her eponymous show, Cooper, 55, discussed the death of his brother. Carter Cooper, his brother, leapt to his death from their 14th-floor apartment in front of their mother as she begged with him to get down. Cooper said that his mother'relived it daily' and'replayed it in her head every single day of her life for the remainder of her life.' According to CNN's anchor, she was still thinking of things she could have done differently that day that might have prevented Carter from jumping. Carter's suicide came ten years after their father, Wyatt Cooper, died, and Cooper admitted that he was unable to express his sorrow for years. May McLinden, his beloved nanny, and Gloria, who died in 2019 at the age of 95, is an exploration of grief and loss that he started recording while packing up his late mother's belongings.

In Feud season two, Tom Hollander will play Truman Capote

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 18, 2022
In the forthcoming second season of Ryan Murphy's anthology film Feud, Tom Hollander has been cast as Truman Capote. Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange respectively played Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in season one, which aired in 2017. Diane Lane and Calista Flockhart, both from Variety, will be on display in season two as Truman alienated his New York society pals.