Tell Me EVERYTHING

Give us a great woman's stories, and we'll show you the world.

- BY STELLENE VOLANDES

My mother," says Victoria Brynner of Doris Kleiner Brynner, “would sit on this tiny chair near the phone in our kitchen, and her friends would all call: Sally Aga Khan, Valentino and Giancarlo, Georgina and Cristiana Brandolini. Annette and Oscar de la Renta. Elizabeth. Audrey lived just a stone's throw away, so they visited in person. And Gianni Agnelli—they spoke practically every morning, but he had a special line.”