(Gordon, Meryl) A style icon and American aristocrat, Bunny Mellon led a simultaneously glamorous and private live. Best friend to Jackie Kennedy – she designed the White House Rose Garden at JFK’s request – and muse to burgeoning French designers Cristóbal Balenciaga and his successor Hubert de Givenchy, Bunny served as a living witness to 20yèm Century American history. Meryl Gordon brings readers an illuminating biography of this last scion of the gilded age of American wealth in Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend (Grand Central Publishing). Gordon is the author of the New York Times bestselling Mrs. Astor Regrets epi Phantom of Fifth Avenue, yon Jounal Wall Street bestseller. She is an award-winning journalist and a regular contributor to Vanite Fè. She is on the graduate journalism faculty at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.