A Rare Interview with Babe Paley

On favorite fashion designers, elegant women and charity balls.

As we all know at this point, Babe Paley gave few interviews and the ones she did entertain were with her former employer, Vogue Magazine, in her early years as an editor with the magazine, some of which she was featured in. There are no known audio recordings and certainly nothing of a biographical nature. Anything that disclosed the inner details of her life came from sources within her close circle or those aligned with her peripherally…in other words, mostly hearsay and gossip.