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At Home with W
In our 39-year history (face it—we’ll never admit to 40), we’ve gone home with more than a few notables. In 1976 Truman Capote invited us into his leopard-print lair to talk Proust and sex. We crawled into bed with Betty Catroux in 1974. And in 1993, on the eve of auctioning $20 million worth of his antiques, Hubert de Givenchy surveyed his Parisian hôtel particulier with W in tow. “Having things, only to put them in the basement, or buying a painting just to hide it, that’s nonsense,” said the designer. “You have to live with them or let someone else do it.” Here, a look back at lives well lived and homes well furnished.
May 2011
“Everyone is just talking about the new sex bars.… I’ve known about them
for some time.” —Truman Capote, in 1976, while posing in his 22nd-floor
apartment with socialite C.Z. Guest
May 2011
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