As you may know the fabulous Elizabeth Taylor has passed away. I heard about her untimely passing on the drive to work this morning.
I recall watching SATC when Charlotte was inspired by Elizabeth Taylor after watching her True Hollywood Story. She came out of her apartment wearing an incredible pink dress as shown below after feeling revived following the mourning of the loss of her pregnancy.
"I'm a survivor," she once said, "a living example of what people can go through and survive."
Elizabeth Taylor's style and grace has influenced many women across the decades. Born Elizabeth Rosamond Taylor on Feb. 27, 1932, in London to American parents, the girl for whom the phrase "violet-eyed beauty" would become synonymous arrived in Hollywood in 1939 as her family fled war-torn Europe. A neighbor secured Taylor a screen test with Universal Pictures. She was put under contract, and at age 10, debuted in the 1942 comedy, There's One Born Every Minute.
Liz Taylor was no stranger to marriage. Hilton was Nicholas Conrad Hilton Jr., the hotel scion and future great uncle of Paris and namesake Nicky Hilton. He was also the first ex-Mr. Taylor. In 1957, the 24-year-old Taylor wed producer/impresario Mike Todd. The marriage lasted only 13 months. The culprit wasn't divorce; it was a plane crash that claimed Todd's life. Enter Eddie Fisher. "The thought of having a love affair with Elizabeth never entered my mind. Never," Fisher wrote in his autobiography. "But at about 4 a.m. [one] night…she called me. I don't remember much of our conversation, except she said emphatically, 'When you get back, we have to talk. I want to see you.' I assumed she wanted to talk about Mike. Which demonstrates how little I understand women."
And thus commenced the Taylor-Fisher affair, which begat the Reynolds-Fisher divorce, which, in 1959, begat the Taylor-Fisher marriage. And thus commenced the Taylor-Burton affair, which begat Burton's divorce from his wife, which begat Taylor's divorce from Fisher, which, in 1964, begat Taylor's marriage to Burton.
"What do you expect me to do?" Taylor asked once. "Sleep alone?"
Taylor went on to marry Richard Burton, then Larry Fortensky, and finally David Gest.
Not only was she a style icon she was also the owner of the worlds biggest diamond, the Hope Diamond.
I remember playing around my mothers dresser and spritzing on some of her White Diamonds, Elizabeth's perfume. RIP Liz ♥
