In 1968, Gloria Guinness

In 1968, Gloria Guinness had given up wearing coats.  She gave up wearing coats because she had discovered in a shop, in Palm Beach called La Palapa, (does anyone remember this store?  If you do, I would love to hear from you!) the ruana.  

What is a ruana you might wonder or at least I wondered.  It is basically a sort of a blanket coat - a long strip slit almost to the center.  And I thought, wait a minute, let me just check the Chloe Pre-Fall 2014 collection and there it was!  A Gloria Guinness worthy ruana in a bright cornflower blue.

There is also one in a cream with a faded charcoal stripe - which is the one I think I will get...

When Hubert de Givenchy saw La Guinness wearing her Palm Beach ruanas, he had his Paris workroom copy the shape.

"I plan to go on dressing by my own ideas.  I have always known what I ought to wear."

Gloria Guinness

Love, kisses and let's do what G.G. does, Juliana

Style Icon: Gloria Guiness

I was looking at my Assouline book, Swans: Legends of the Jet Society, when I came across this small image of Gloria Guinness:

And I was really struck by how chic she looked.  And I wondered why is she so perfect in this photo?  It is a simple white top and a plain white skirt.  I think it is the black accents: the white and black polka dotted head scarf, the sunglasses, the black bag that just gives it that slippery something that is STYLE.

I became Gloria Guinness obsessed and started googling images of her and I found this one - which again highlights her simple, je ne sais quoi, chic:

  

It looks to me like Gloria Guinness is wearing a Halston pajama: a silk bias cut tunic and pants .  And some cah-razy jewelry!

"I've never worn costume jewelry in my life.  It's really very self-defeating.  Why should a man buy a woman real jewelry when she wears false pieces?"

Gloria Guinness

love and kisses, Juliana

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Gloria Guinness and daughter Dolores in Balenciaga

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Gloria Guinness in 1966

1966 Harper's Bazaar asked Gloria Guinness if she always wear white sharkskin tousers and men's cotton tops in black or navy when she is on holiday in Acapulco.  (Her answer: Yes I do, is that wrong?)    They ask if she has anything special for the evenings.  (Her answer is: that she combs her hair.)  

1966 Bazaar is filled with images of 'The Blithe Sleep Dress', Francoise Dorleac in Pierre Cardin and Catherine Deneuve in Dior, the rage for redheads and Paris when it floats.  It also has a Donald Brooks gown.  

We have the jumpsuit in the same fab fabric.  It has a halterneck and would be perfect on a warm evening with a cocktail and a pair of flat sandals and well, combed hair!  After all, Gloria Guiness is an Icon!  

1966 Donald Brooks Jumpsuit.  Size 4.

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