Gloria Guinness

Gloria Guinness (née Gloria Rubio Alatorre; August 27, 1913 – November 9, 1980) was a socialite and fashion icon, as well as a contributing editor to Harper's Bazaar from 1963 until 1971. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1964.

Early life

Born in Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico, she was a daughter of José Rafael Rubio Torres (1880-1916), a journalist, and his wife, Maria Luisa Dolores Alatorre Diaz (b. 1882).

As a young woman, she was employed as a nightclub hostess.

Marriages

Gloria Rubio was married four times, her spouses being:

(1) Jacobus H. Scholtens, a Dutch sugar-factory superintendent, whom she married in 1933 and from whom she was later divorced.

(2) Franz-Egon Maria Meinhard Engelbert Pius Aloysius Kaspar Ferdinand Dietrich, third Graf von Fürstenberg-Herdringen (1896–1975), whom she married on October 4, 1935, in Kensington, London, England; she was his second wife and had a stepdaughter from her husband's first marriage, the actress Betsy von Furstenberg. By him, she had two children: