• the best party of all time

    NEW YORK, 1966

    Truman Capote’s

    black and white BALL

    THE OCCASION: Novelist and social butterfly Truman Capote decided to celebrate the phenomenal success of his book In Cold Blood with a lavish party for more than 500 in the ballroom of New York’s Plaza Hotel. He invited the most famous people in the world and then asked them to hide their faces behind masks.

    GUEST LIST: The worlds of Hollywood, the arts, politics, big business, high society and royalty came together to toast Capote – and preen for the waiting photographers.

    A-LIST WALTZ

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    Photograph: © Elliott Erwitt/Magnum Photos

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