What Would Marella Agnelli Do?

“The true beauty is made, not born,” Richard Avedon once wrote in T&C to accompany a portfolio of his portraits of international high society’s singular swans. “The really beautiful woman suggests something we had not imagined before—in a glance or the turn of her head.” Among those the legendary photographer deemed worthy of such a description were Babe Paley, Gloria Guinness (and her daughter Dolores), Gloria Vanderbilt, and Jacqueline de Ribes, indomitable still at 92. Then there was Marella Agnelli, whom Avedon described as “the prototype of a thousand years of Italian beauty. Born a Caracciolo, she evokes the Renaissance… Read Full Article