Barbara Cushing, later Babe Paley wearing wedding dress by Mabel Mcilvain Downs, Horst P. Horst, Vogue, October 1940
Truman Capote had the same tender feelings for all his girlfriends but only the beautiful Babe Paley had a personal key to his heart. "When I first saw her," Capote said, " I thought this is perfection. Her posture, her plasticity, the way she holds her head." Their relationship was very close, they trusted and needed each other. "I was madly in love with her! She was just amazing. One of the two or three obsessions of my life, but only in her I liked absolutely everything. I think she's one of the three greatest beauties in the world, the other two are Gloria Guinness and Greta Garbo. And Babe is the most beautiful. The most beautiful woman of the 20th century and the most gorgeous lady I've ever known, " Capote said.
