The women : Babe Paley / Hamish Bowles ; Plum Sykes ; Brooke Astor ; Uma Thruman ; Marlene Dietrich ; Eliza Reed Bolen, Aerin Lauder, Marina Rust ; C.Z. Guest / Hamish Bowles ; Amanda Burden ; Edie Sedgwick ; Sienna Miller ; Lee Radziwill ; Mica Ertegün ; Chessy Rayner ; Gloria Vanderbilt ; Elliott Puckette ; Carolyne Roehmn ; Aerin Lauder ; Jayne Wrightsman ; Ivanka and Melania Trump / Jonathan Van Meter, Sally Singer ; The Miller Sisters ; Diana Mellon ; Kelly Wearstler ; Diane von Furstenberg / John Juliet Buck ; Lauren DuPont ; Jacqueline Kennedy / Hamish Bowles ; Michelle Obama / André Leon Talley -- The parties : Eliza Reed and Alexander Bolen wedding / Hamish Bowles ; The Venice balls / Hamish Bowles ; Lauren Davis and Andrés Santo Domingo wedding / William Norwich ; Wedding cakes / Jeffrey Steingarten ; Plum Sykes and Toby Rowland wedding / Marina Rust ; The Black and White Ball / Gloria Steinem ; Dita von Teese and Marilyn Manson wedding / Hamish Bowles ; Minnie Cushing and Peter Beard wedding ; The Costume Institute Galas / Hamish Bowles -- The actresses : Scarlett Johansson ; Cate Blanchett / Michael Specter ; Jennifer Lopez ; Isabella Rossellini / Joan Juliet Buck ; Renée Zellweger ; Cameron Diaz ; Keira Knightley ; Ali MacGraw ; Gwyneth Paltrow / Jonathan Van Meter ; Charlize Theron ; Charlotte Rampling / Leo Lerman ; Brooke Shields ; Anjelica Huston ; Penélope Cruz ; Kirsten Dunst ; Nicole Kidman / Sally Singer ; Sarah Jessica Parker ; Angelina Jolie / Jonathan Van Meter -- The places : Agnelli Cruise: Yugoslavian Coast / Truman Capote ; Inès De La Fressange: Paris and Normany / Georgina Howell ; The gardens of Miranda Brooks: Corfu, Montauk, East Hampton / Eve MacSweeney ; Valentino's Château de Wideville: Île-de-France / Hamish Bowles ; Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall: Mustique / Stephanie Mansfield ; Paloma Picasso: Paris and New York City / Joan Juliet Buck ; Loulou De La Falaise: Picardy / Georgina Howell ; Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti: outside Rome / Francis Wyndham ; Julie and Luke Janklow: New York Citiy / Plum Sykes -- Muses and models : Shalom Harlow ; Angela Lindvall, Isabelle Blow, Vanessa Bellanger, Amanda Harlech ; Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington / Jonathan Van Meter ; Carla Bruni ; Alba Clemente ; Iman / Vicki Woods ; Penolope Tree / Polly Devlin ; Jacqueline Schnabel / Hamish Bowles ; Cher / Paul Rudnick ; Gisele Bündchen ; Beyoncé ; Lauren Hutton / Kate Lloyd ; Naomi Campbell / Jonathan Van Meter ; Shalom Harlow and Amber Valletta / Charles Grandee ; Marisa Berenson / Hamish Bowles ; Natalia Vodianova / Sarah Mower ; Cindy Crawford / Julia Reed ; Veruschka / Richard Avedon ; Marie-Laure de Noailles ; Isabella Blow ; Kate Moss / Plum Sykes.