“I still wear those six-inchers,” she says as she sinks into a banquette and orders a glass of champagne (prompting the projectile cork). Her accessories include a patent-leather Armani belt and sleek Yves Saint Laurent stilettos. Her still-striking figure, with its tiny waist, is decked out in a tight black-and-silver Tom Ford skirt and a black silk blouse by Jonathan Blake, a fashionable Houston-based designer. Heads turn as Lynn Wyatt makes her entrance into the Carlyle dining room. Lynn Wyatt at Tony’s restaurant with Houstonians Pat Breen and Caroline Wiess Law, photographed by Annie Leibovitz in 1998. Each of the seated dinners, which were for up to 60 people, had a theme, such as “Denim and Diamonds,” “Think Pink,” and the “Gypsy Party.” Meanwhile, she has helped raise millions for charities, including the Princess Grace Foundation and seemingly every worthy institution in Texas, such as the M.F.A.H., Houston Grand Opera, and Houston Ballet. No haute couture show was complete without her, and her annual birthday parties, at villas in the South of France, were considered high points of the summer season-drawing her friends, who ranged from Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco to Elton John, Estée Lauder, David Niven, Joan Collins, and West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt. For five decades she has been a fixture in the international social firmament.
Unlike that cork she caught so easily, Lynn seems to be unstoppable. Though Lynn was chair of the event, she was very much the honoree, too, as tout Texas turned out to toast her. The most “official” observation of the event occurred October 2 in her hometown, at the annual Grand Gala Ball of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (M.F.A.H.).
0 kommentar(er)
