38 Photos That Prove Slim Aarons Was "Living His Best Life" Before That Was Even a Thing
The photographer enjoyed unparalleled access to the lives of the rich and famous.
Slim Aarons once described his photographs as, "Attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Somehow, he managed to cozy up to Hollywood acolytes, socialites, and royalty with ease—giving him a one-of-a-kind access to shoot often-elusive subjects around the globe. Here, 38 of his most iconic photographs.
Renata Boeck has breakfast in bed at the Regency Hotel in New York.
Hollywood stars Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper, and James Stewart enjoy at New Year's party at Romanoff's in Beverly Hills.
John Albert Edward Spencer Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, and his wife Mary spend time on the grounds of Blenheim Palace, the family seat in Oxfordshire.
Socialite C.Z. Guest and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest by the pool on their Palm Beach estate, Villa Artemis.
Italian artist and actress Domiziana Giordano, Italian author Francesca Sanvitale, Dino Trappetti, and Umberto Terrelli enjoy a meal on terrace overlooking the coast of Capri.
Louis Armstrong digs into a plate of spaghetti in Rome.
Her Serene Highness Gabriela, Furstin von und zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn with her son Heinrich at home in Sayn, Germany.
Lord Hesketh, the U.K. Minister of State at the Department of Trade and Industry, poses in his family estate, Easton Neston House in Northamptonshire. The child in the middle is his daughter, Sophie.
Joan Collins Relaxes
Joan Collins relaxes with her pink poodle on her pink bed.
Guests pose by a convertible Rolls-Royce—a courtesy car at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France.
Marie Chantal Miller, future wife of Prince Pavlos of Greece, strikes an extravagant pose above her sister Pia. The group is hanging out in pool of the Hotel Belair, Cap Ferrat, France.
A group enjoys some wine outside the Carlton Hotel in Cannes.
Actress Dee Hartford, wife of film producer Howard Hawks, sips a Pussyfoot (a mixture of Jamaican fruit juices).
Princess Colonna and her son, Prospero Colonna, in the family residence, Palazzo Colonna in Rome.
Baron Hubert von Pantz with two of his guests, Princess Johanna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn and her daughter Countess Leonille Grafin Douglas, by the pool of his villa, El Rincon, in Marbella, Spain.
Polly Trott Hornburg in front of her father's typical Bermudian house. She is wearing pants and a shirt that she designed herself.
Princess Bianca Hanau-Schaumburg spends time at her Gstaad chalet.
Three skiing waiters on a ski slope, with the man in the foreground carrying a bird on a tray, the second man carrying a wine in an ice bucket and the third carrying a menu, in Stowe, Vermont.
Daphne Cameron sits on a tiger pelt in the trophy room of Laddie Sanford's Palm Beach house.
Jean Negulesco
Romanian director Jean Negulesco and his wife Dusty pose in front of a portrait of Dusty.
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