Lee Bouvier Radziwill - The original Pippa

Vale Lee.

This was a post published in 2013 but am reposting now.
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The New York Times is running a fantastic  piece on Lee Radziwill.

There are several notable contributors to this article: 

Nicky Haslam, Sofia Coppola, Peter Beard, etc. 

It reads more like a proper in depth Vanity Fair article.

It's meaty and will go great with your Saturday brunch.

It also features a video interview with Sofia Coppola speaking to her about topics as diverse as her relationship with Peter Beard to her childhood - Onassis was off limits though.

You can click here for the link.

Fabulous cover of the T Magazine.

I didn't know I was such a fan until this picture.

Cute as a button - both of them.

Cecil Beaton anything is ok with me.

 A modern Matisse-y / Cecil Beaton / Vogue composition.

As you do.

 Her living room in her Paris apartment.
Well edited, polished and inviting: 
kind of like her. 
( after reading the interview )

The other side of the same Parisian living room.

Refreshingly and surprisingly simple bedroom - 

let's not analyze this too much.

Another domestic still I shall not analyze especially as 

I am going to post pictures of my side table soon.

Her creative side, her watercolors, on display seamless with her decor.

But what we all have in the back of our mind when we see her.

Rivalry , Revelry.  

Potato, po-tah-toe.

 Both enjoyed social outings together and each others company.

Both were able to simply be themselves 

without any social pretense.

 Lee with her ex husband who was aristocracy 

and still on friendly terms.

Pippa also with her ex boyfriend of aristocratic stock enjoying a platonic relationship.

Lee with one of the most sought after bachelors of the time - regardless of orientation.

Pippa on good terms with one of the most eligible bachelors in the world.

 Both girls seem to have a carefree side.

Sometimes they hung out with the bad boys.

Pic by New York Social Diary

Lee with Truman Capote and Normal Mailer, 

literary bad boys.

Pippa with Eurotrash bad boys.

Compulsory attendance on first row of fashion shows.

Both tried their hand at publishing.

Recipe for ice anyone?

 I wonder if Lee and Pippa have spoken to each other about  starting a support group for younger sisters of quietly alpha personality, eldest child syndrome, simultaneously over / underachieving women married to socially prominent men?

To be a fly on the wall ...