Biography of bunny mellon
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Throughout the biography, you ascribe a variety of dictums or defining statements to Bunny. If you had to pick just one to capture her approach to life and design, what would it be and why?
Two spring to mind: “Never look back”—this from the least self-analytical woman ever—and “I know what I want to get done,” something that allowed her to cut through the mass of choices life gave her, for good and for bad.
Bunny’s “Three Musketeers” were far more dashing than those that Dumas wrote about. Can you talk about the relationship she had with Cristóbal Balenciaga, Hubert de Givenchy, and Jean Schlumberger?
Her relationship with Balenciaga was reverential; with Schlumberger, romantic; with Givenchy, she wavered between wanting more of the man’s heart, soul, and body and taking him as what he truly was: her best friend.
Because of her extreme modesty, a lot of people don’t know about Bunny’s contributions to interior and horticultural design. What do you want people to take away • Subscribe Newsletters This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading an account? . At , Rachel Lowe Lambert Mellon, better known as Bunny Mellon, has lived most of her life outside the spotlight. That's pretty impressive for the widow of banking legend Paul Mellon, whose net worth is an estimated $ million. But Mellon has been forced into the spotlight in recent years, not for her philanthropic work but in connection with two headline-making scandals. In she lost an estimated $ million in Kenneth Starr's $59 million Ponzi scheme. And she's become a figure in the ongoing John Edwards trial over a $, campaign donation that he allegedly used to pay off his mistress, Rielle Hunter. The New York Times' Guy Trebay had a fascinating profile of Mellon in last weekend'sNew York Times. The whole piece is worth a read •The Incredible Life Of Year-Old Banking Heiress Bunny Mellon
Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend