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Lucy Douglas " C.Z. " Guest (née Cochrane; February 19, 1920 – November 8, 2003) was an American actress, author, columnist, horsewoman, fashion designer, and socialite who achieved a degree of fame as a fashion icon. She was frequently seen wearing elegant designs by designers like Mainbocher. Her unfussy, clean-cut style was seen as ...
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Mainbocher is a fashion label founded by the American...
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Cornelia Cochrane Churchill Guest was born on November 28,...
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Nov 10, 2023 · Elegance was the hook upon which Boston-born C. Z. Guest, a gazelle among the author’s so-called Swans, hung her whole self. A keen horticulturist and equine enthusiast, C. Z.—born Lucy ...
Feb 1, 2024 · C. Z. Guest was born Lucy Douglas Cochrane in 1920. Her mother Vivian was an actress (she has one credit on IMDb), while her father Alexander was an investment banker who came from a family of ...
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Nov 10, 2003 · Nov. 10, 2003. C. Z. Guest, one of the monarchs of New York society who was a perennial selection on the best-dressed list, a noted horsewoman and an authority on gardening, died on Saturday at ...
Apr 16, 2024 · In 1947, C. Z. married Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, a polo champion, heir to a steel fortune and second cousin of Winston Churchill. The wedding took place on Ernest Hemingway’s estate in Cuba, where the author served as best man. C. Z. went on to have two children with Winston Guest: Alexander and Cornelia.
Feb 7, 2024 · A native of Boston, Guest was born Lucy Douglas Cochrane. (According to the Associated Press, “C.Z.” was a version of her siblings’ nickname, which was Sissy.) She wasn’t much of a student ...
Apr 16, 2024 · As with any sibling relationship, their behaviour patterns were set in their childhoods growing up in Boston. C.Z. was the second of four siblings, raised on 303 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston to a 21-year-old New York stage actress who was the daughter of a Dutch piano teacher and an older, mostly absent banker father who died when she was five in 1926.
