Magrino told her to start by not using the word “jolly.”Īll told, Tilberis had spent 22 years at British Vogue starting out as an intern under the magazine’s mythic editor, Beatrix Miller, in the late 1960s, eventually rising through the ranks to fashion director. When she was in the process of settling in New York with her husband, Andrew, and their two young sons, she asked her publicist, Susan Magrino, how she could act more American. Tilberis, though, delighted in such attempts at derision-and suffered no fools gladly.

Tilberis didn’t look the part: She sported a prematurely gray bob and wore a size 14-a detail the British press often liked to point out. The daughter of an eye surgeon, she was born in Alderley Edge, in Cheshire, England, just outside Manchester. In March of that year, Liz Tilberis, the new editor of Bazaar arrived at the magazine from British Vogue. Over the years, Harper's Bazaar has often pondered the meaning of the word “elegance.” “Elegance is refusal” was Diana Vreeland’s dictum (which she pinched from Coco Chanel), while Carmel Snow famously described it as “good taste, plus a dash of daring.” In a column for Bazaar’s May 1964 issue, the onetime Capote swan Gloria Guinness proposed that elegance was something that could not be acquired, that it was “a gift of nature.” And then, in September 1992, implored us to enter the era of it.

Pandangan Pertama by Yoana Dianika