To Know Your History, Know Your Fashion, Colette was "Pre-SATC & Pre-Carrie Bradshaw; "SUSANNE BARTSCH: ON TOP" was Pioneering Party Promoter; & "Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco" was the Seventies.

By Laura Medina

Before there was Carrie Bradshaw documenting her diverse clique of friends' style, career, and sex life as lifestyles and a capsule of late Eighties/early Nineties hip and affordable Manhattan, there was Belle Epoque Paris, precursor to "Sex and the City" and Carrie Bradshaw, the lifestyle documentarian and trendsetter.
Under a Svengali/marketer husband, Colette and her inner circle became an aspirational brand.  People emulated her and her husband. They bought her lifestyle perfumes and cosmetics to be like her ...and plays.  They even tried to break in to the film business.  
People read her risqué tales for tantalization and entertainment.  
Watch "Poldark's" Eleanor Tomlinson playing a seductive, lipstick lesbian southern belle, Georgie Raoul-Duval.  A complete 180 degrees flip away from the loyal but rough and tough Delmelza. 

http://www.susannebartsch.com/documentary/

Since parties, bashes, galas, and celebrations are the new advertisements and promotions, they rose up alongside social media...well, you gotta be sociable to be social media.
Before that, Susanne Bartsch discovered, rescued, and gave "freaks and outsiders" night club kids, artists, and performance artists their first big break, entertaining and performing at parties, first promoting clubs, art galleries, and eventually gyms that morphed from Dave Barton Gym to hyper-stylish Equinox, where disco and theater meets the gym.
As a punctual Swiss with German discipline, Susanne is one heck of a producer and director.  She infused her promotional parties with art and culture from her European heritage.  Party as opera.
She gave RuPaul his first break, leading up to the Emmys.

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Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex, Fashion & Disco,...
If someone calls you "a freak," remember they're talent-less wanna-bes and laze-abouts.  A sixties free love child turned seventies Svengali who lived the life because he was a real deal, Antonio Lopez went from a mere fashion illustrator to discovering icons: Jessica Lange, Pat Cleveland, and Jerry Hall.
He was there for Karl Legerfeld, when he was at Chloe, before he revitalized the olde house of Chanel.
Fashionistas, learn your history.
Yes, it has always been cultured and educated as it is sexy and glamourous.