77. Daisy Fellowes — Sundays with Leigh Plessner
Daisy Fellowes in a necklace from Cartier’s Tutti Frutti collection, photographed by Cecil Beaton
Catbird’s Leigh Plessner joins us to discuss the 1931 novella Sundays and its fascinating author, French socialite Daisy Fellowes. Heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune, Fellowes was the Paris editor of the American Harper’s Bazaar and muse to the likes of Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Salvador Dali. Karl Lagerfeld reportedly once called her “the chicest woman I ever laid eyes on.”
Discussed in this episode:
The Tutti Frutti collection by Cartier
“The Most Wicked Woman in High Society” (The Daily Mail)
Heiresses: the Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Nancy Mitford with Laura Thompson
Cats in the Isle of Man by Daisy Fellowes
Tell Them it was Wonderful by Ludwig Bemelmans
To the One I Love Best by Ludwig Bemelmans
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Marjorie Hillis with Joanna Scutts