What did Truman Capote’s swans have in widespread? Enviable cheekbones, closets stuffed with couture, and advantageous marriages, definitely—however they had been additionally all closely featured within the pages of our very personal journal. (Vogue was truly the place Babe Paley, then Barbara Cushing, labored as a vogue editor for practically a decade, beginning in 1938.)

By means of the pages of Vogue, these swans introduced their marriages (and second and third), and welcomed the world into their beautifully designed houses. There have been tales, too: In 1967, Capote chronicled his summer time bobbing alongside the Adriatic sea on the yacht belonging to Italian socialite Marella Agnelli; that very same yr, Lee Radziwill launched her considerably short-lived inside design profession with the sugary article “Discover a New Job: Lee Radziwill.” Suffice it to say, Vogue and the swans have historical past.

Forward of the premiere of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, we took the chance to sift via our archives to as soon as once more highlight this to-the-manner-born circle. Under, you’ll discover Babe Paley, C.Z. Visitor, Slim Keith, and Lee Radziwill (we’ve additionally included Marella Agnelli and Gloria Guinness, who get no air time within the sequence however aren’t any much less swan-material) photographed by the greats: Cecil Beaton, Horst P. Horst, Toni Frissell, and John Rawlings. And since Capote beloved a scandal, we additionally unearthed a picture of his black swan, Ann Woodward, (photographed by Horst P. Horst in 1949), whose tragic story Capote would later exploit in his notorious piece “La Côte Basque, 1965.” 

Babe Paley

Paley’s Vogue debut got here in 1937, when she was featured in an adjunct story photographed by Cecil Beaton, “Private Results of the Season.” Her appearances outrank any of her fellow swans—it may need had one thing to do together with her being on Vogue’s masthead nevertheless it additionally helped that she had a set of extremely photogenic rooms (from her condo on the Manhattan St. Regis, which Billy Baldwin ensconced in a foulard-like cloth, to her seashore home in Jamaica’s Spherical Hill). She additionally had a number of the finest jewels round; her wedding-day portrait from 1940 is strikingly trendy and deserves a spot on all bride-to-be’s Pinterest boards.