Gloria Vanderbilt Fashion Icon Dies

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The socialite, millionaire, writer, designer and fashion icon Gloria Vanderbilt has died today in New York from stomach cancer. Her son, journalist and presenter Anderson Cooper has confirmed the news to the media and has assured that she has been surrounded by her relatives until the end.

"Earlier this month we had to take her to the hospital," said Cooper, 52, at the chain where she has been working for years, CNN. “There we learned that he had very advanced cancer in the stomach and that it had spread. When the doctor told her that she had cancer, she was silent for a moment and then she said: "well, it's like that old song" Show me the way to get out of this world because that's where everything is."

Her grandfather was the magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, and she became heir to a naval and railroad empire thanks to which she grew up surrounded by New York and international high society. She was married four times and among her friends she could count on countless celebrities from the world of cinema, art and culture. Among them the writer Truman Capote, who they say was inspired by her to create the legendary character of Holly Golightly in Breakfast with Diamonds.

In the 70s he revolutionized the world of fashion with his design of jeans in collaboration with the Murjani brand. Until then the garment was practically exclusively for men or for the working class and she managed to turn it into a sophisticated and fashionable garment overnight, approved by the elite of Fifth Avenue.

"She was 95 years old but ask anyone who knew her and she will tell you that she was the youngest person she knew, the coolest and the most modern," her son said in his statement.