Gloria Vanderbilt
Gloria Vanderbilt
Gloria Laura Vanderbiltis an American artist, author, actress, heiress, and socialite. During the 1930s, she was the subject of a high-profile child custody trial in which her mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, and her paternal aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, both sought custody of the child Gloria and control over her $5 million trust fund. The trial, called the "trial of the century" by the press, was the subject of wide, sensational press coverage due to the wealth and notoriety of the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth20 February 1924
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things, I think, on the inside, show on the outside.
I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.
You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you
To be pregnant has been for me each time the supreme joy ... I was doing the greatest thing in the world without having to do anything -- all I had to do was be.
A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.
I like to repaint rooms, to redecorate. My dream would be to have pieds-à-terre in various places.
When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?
When I was being photographed, I always felt very much in my own skin. That's probably one of the reasons why I enjoy being photographed.
I have a tremendous appetite for life; the phone rings and your whole life could change.
Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.
We would have second thoughts about using Kate Moss again. We weren't aware of any issues with Kate prior to this campaign.