Slim Aarons spent a half century earning the trust of the very rich and the very famous, and this volume gathers the women at the center of that world — socialites, film stars, fashion icons, and royalty, captured at their most glamorous in some of the most dazzling locations on earth. Audrey Hepburn, Diana Vreeland, Marlene Dietrich, the Duchess of Windsor, and more than 250 images, the majority never published in previous collections.

Captions by Laura Hawk, one of Aarons's closest colleagues, add context and intimacy to a body of work that continues to captivate for the same reason it always has — it offers a glimpse into a world that no longer exists.