Scorpions Club 2018

Oct 31

It’s All Hallows Eve around the world, and in Paris the graveyards must be buzzing with activity among members of the Scorpions Club, founded by Franco-American author and saloniste Natalie Clifford Barney, born this day in 1876, to honor a group of intimates who all shared her birthday. Every year she threw a party in

Barney and Gramont: Binary Star System

Apr 30

  30 April 2014 Binary Star System Èlisabeth de gramont and natalie Barney 115 years ago today in Paris, two remarkable women were rummaging through their wardrobes looking for something to wear on their first date. Both were in the avant-garde. Radical elites. First-born daughters. Élisabeth de Gramont, the married mother of two daughters of