Remembering the enduring style of Talitha Getty on what would have been her birthday ❤️
to the hedonistic glitz of the privileged 1920s flappers in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel. The designer famously said, "I knew the youthfulness of the sixties: Talitha and Paul Getty lying on a starlit terrace in Marrakesh, beautiful and damned, and a whole generation assembled as if for eternity where the curtain of the past seemed to lift before an extraordinary future."
The second wife of John-Paul Getty Jr., died of a heroin overdose aged just 30 at the height of her celebrity, cementing her into cultural legend, passing within the same twelve-month period as Jimi Hendrix, Edie Sedgwick, and Jim Morrison. Escaping swinging London for the heady ethnicity of the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, Getty lived in a luxurious house, which she used to play host to notoriously lavish parties that included performances from magicians and local dancing boys.