Jewelry designer Hanut Singh, at home in New Delhi, India. One’s heritage can often be one’s destiny. Soldiers beget soldiers, lawyers f...

Gladys Deacon, later Duchess of Marlborough, in a portrait by Paul-César Helleu. "If you want to do something, don’t tell other pe...

  "What is the use of being beautiful, if you have to buy your own emeralds?" So said actress Gina Lollobrigida (born 1927), a...

Artist Pablo Picasso in his studio. Image from World Art. "There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what...

British artist Colin Gill's 1928 depictions of the bright blue eyes of Gladys Duchess of Marlborough (née Gladys Deacon) stare down ...

“A beautiful perfume is the one which gives us a shock: a sensory one followed by a psychological one." So said Edmond Roudnitska...