Nan Kempner:The West Coast Rich Girl Moved East and Rewrote the Guest List of Manhattan High Society

Nan Kempner spent decades as the skinniest, sharpest silhouette in New York — a “social X-ray” who turned her own body into a moving museum for Dior, YSL and Valentino while pretending the hunger, discipline and status anxiety underneath were just good manners. Everyone saw the clothes; very few saw the cost of staying thin enough, rich enough, included enough to keep her place at the table. When your whole identity is built on never slipping out of perfection, what happens the first time you let yourself be simply human? #NanKempner #SocialXRay #FashionIcon #NewYorkSociety #HighSocietySecrets