"Burns makes it abundantly clear .
With Searching for Beauty, Millicent Rogers enters the pantheon of great American women who, like Diana Vreeland and Babe Paley, put their distinctive stamp on American style..
She was muse to legendary American designer Charles James, appeared in Vogue and Harper\'s Bazaar and popularized Southwestern Style by adopting turquoise jewelry, squaw skirts and short-waist jackets as her signature look.
She eloped with a penniless baron; danced tangos in European nightclubs; romanced Roald Dahl, Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, and Hollywood icon Clark Gable; and triumphed in the World of fashion.
In Searching for Beauty, Cherie Burns chronicles Rogers\'s rebellious Life from her days as a young girl afflicted with rheumatic fever to her final days as one of the legendary chatelaines of New Mexico.
Born to luxury, she lived in a whirl of European vacations, exquisite clothing, and dashing men. they just don\'t make heiresses like Millicent Rogers anymore." --Hampton Sides Nobody knew how to live the high Life like Standard Oil Heiress Millicent Rogers. . . "Burns makes it abundantly clear
