![]() ![]() And if they do, it’s because they want to be known for their own wealth building endeavors. “Really rich people don’t want press anymore,” journalist Bob Colacello says. These days it’s far more common for women who inherit or stand to inherit astronomical sums of money to eschew the media. But these kinds of swan faded from the zeitgeist in recent years, and the words to describe them became something of an insult, if they weren’t always. The public’s obsession with the Nancy Cunards and Gloria Vanderbilts of the world always held a splintered, glitzy mirror up to our collective relationship to wealth, work, and womanhood. As the scion of one of the most important oil families from America’s robber baron past, Getty is a throwback to an era of loopy, over-the-top, fashion-embracing heiresses. The ceremony was widely covered, and a not-so-friendly internet parsed the optics of having as her officiant Nancy Pelosi, the good fortune of her sweater-wearing rescue dog, and her bridal gown, which, designed from a shattered mirror by John Galliano for Maison Margiela, looked as if it could bring at least seven years of bad luck.Īlso noted: her surname. When model and artist Ivy Getty got married in November, it did not go unnoticed.
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