Baron Nicolas Louis Alexandre de Gunzburg (12 December 1904 – 20 February 1981) was an editor in chief of Town & Country and an influential fashion editor at Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.
Born in Paris to a wealthy ennobled Russian banking family called Günzburg; the umlaut was dropped and the aristocratic particle "de" added in the nineteenth century after they had been created "barons". His father was a Russian Jew, and his mother was Polish-Brazi...
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Baron Nicolas Louis Alexandre de Gunzburg (12 December 1904 – 20 February 1981) was an editor in chief of Town & Country and an influential fashion editor at Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.
Born in Paris to a wealthy ennobled Russian banking family called Günzburg; the umlaut was dropped and the aristocratic particle "de" added in the nineteenth century after they had been created "barons". His father was a Russian Jew, and his mother was Polish-Brazilian. The Günzburgs were, among other things, financial patrons of Russian dance impresario Sergei Diaghilev and his famed Ballets Russes in Paris during the first decades of the twentieth century. He was himself a patron of Vaslav Nijinsky until he was swayed by Diaghilev.
Raised primarily in England his later youth was spent in France. The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, when he was just thirteen, had resulted in the confiscation of the family's property and ended any possibility of a safe return to Russia. Living the life of a bon vivant in...
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