Mona von Bismarck: the five husbands who gave her fame and wealth. Cecil Beaton put her on the cover of American Vogue and through its pages in successive years she gave new meaning to the word glamour.
Her great friend Edna W. Chase, who had been the first editor of Vogue from 1914 to 1952, already made it clear: "Fashion can be bought; style must be had." Mona spent three days in mourning without leaving her rooms in her villa in Capri because it sits on ancient domains of the emperors Caesar Augustus and Tiberius.