Tilberis didn’t look the part: She sported a prematurely gray bob and wore a size 14-a detail the British press often liked to point out. The daughter of an eye surgeon, she was born in Alderley Edge, in Cheshire, England, just outside Manchester. In March of that year, Liz Tilberis, the new editor of Bazaar arrived at the magazine from British Vogue. Over the years, Harper's Bazaar has often pondered the meaning of the word “elegance.” “Elegance is refusal” was Diana Vreeland’s dictum (which she pinched from Coco Chanel), while Carmel Snow famously described it as “good taste, plus a dash of daring.” In a column for Bazaar’s May 1964 issue, the onetime Capote swan Gloria Guinness proposed that elegance was something that could not be acquired, that it was “a gift of nature.” And then, in September 1992, implored us to enter the era of it.
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