"Sundays: A Fantasy" 1960 Fellowes, Daisy

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FELLOWES, Daisy

[115] pp.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

1960

8 1/4" x 5 3/4"

w/ illustrations by Vertes

Daisy Fellowes (née … Read more FELLOWES, Daisy

[115] pp.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

1960

8 1/4" x 5 3/4"

w/ illustrations by Vertes

Daisy Fellowes (née Marguerite Séverine Philippine Decazes de Glücksberg; 29 April 1890 – 13 December 1962) was a prominent French socialite, acclaimed beauty, minor novelist and poet, Paris editor of American Harper's Bazaar, fashion icon, and an heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune.

Fellowes wrote several novels and at least one epic poem. Her best-known work is Les dimanches de la comtesse de Narbonne (1931, published in English as "Sundays"). She also wrote the novel Cats in the Isle of Man.

Among Fellowes's lovers was Duff Cooper, the British ambassador to France. She also attempted to seduce Winston Churchill, but failed, shortly before marrying his cousin Reginald Fellowes.

She was known as one of the most daring fashion plates of the 20th century, arguably the most important patron of the surrealist couturier Elsa Schiaparelli. She was also a friend of the jeweller Suzanne Belperron, and she was a longtime customer of the jeweller Cartier. See less