In November 1966, Truman Capote held a masquerade ball at New York's Plaza Hotel. It was attended by over 500 guests, including Frank Sinatra, Andy Warhol, and Edward VIII. The legendary soirée ...

But little did Capote, or anyone else blinded by his star back then, know: the Black and White Ball would turn out to be as much a sign of his arrival as his swan song. Not long after the party he ...

“It was an invitation that people were clawing to get,” actress Candice Bergen recently said of the Black and White Ball, Capote’s infamous masked affair. “It was New York at its most vicious.

It just had nothing to do with the ball ... lots of different black-and-white footage of him to go off of — Truman doing different things, book signings and stuff.” Capote may not have ...

The ball, of course, was Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball at The Plaza Hotel, and the young cygnet was my mother, the actor Candice Bergen. Already mythologized, the masked ball for 540 ...

the Swans,” recreates Truman Capote’s famous Black and White Ball, held at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in 1966. The event, which honored Katharine Graham, the former publisher of the ...

Almost six decades after Truman Capote's Black and White Ball happened, the "party of the century" still inspires the fiction world and its costumes. In the fourth season of "Emily in Paris," Lily ...

Ryan Murphy has done a show about Truman Capote’s Swans, and they’re really going big with it. Every marketing opportunity, including the Bergdorf windows, which have been transformed into odes to the ...

What Capote managed to achieve with the Black and White Ball remains truly singular; its opulence and envious guest list aside, thanks to Capote's connections and social standing, he was able to bring ...