Photos: Gloria Vanderbilt through the years

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Photos: Gloria Vanderbilt through the years

Images of heiress, socialite, painter, author, designer and mother Gloria Vanderbilt through the years.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 04: Artist Gloria Vanderbilt attends the "Nothing Left Unsaid" New York premiere at Time Warner Center on April 4, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Jim Spellman/WireImage)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 04: Journalist Anderson Cooper and artist Gloria Vanderbilt attend the "Nothing Left Unsaid" New York premiere at Time Warner Center on April 4, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Jim Spellman/WireImage)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 07: Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper in conversation at Barnes & Noble Union Square on April 7, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images)

WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE -- Pictured (l-r): Andy Cohen, Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper -- (Photo by: Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

PASADENA, CA - JANUARY 07: Gloria Vanderbilt (L) and Director Liz Garbus of "Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper" speak onstage during the HBO Winter 2016 TCA Panel at Langham Hotel on January 7, 2016 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)

NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 12: Painter Gloria Vanderbilt attends "The World of Gloria Vanderbilt: Collages, Dream Boxes, and Recent Paintings" Preview Party Gala Benefit to benefit the Huntsville Museum of Art on September 12, 2012 in New York, United States. (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)

NEW YORK CITY, NY - APRIL 16: Gloria Vanderbilt attends KIPS BAY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB 2009 Preview Gala & Cocktails at ASPREY at Kips Bay Decorator Show House & Asprey on April 16, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by BILLY FARRELL /Patrick McMullan via Getty Imagess)

Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt at the Tiffany Store in New York, New York (Photo by Rabbani and Solimene Photography/WireImage)

NEW YORK - OCTOBER 13: Fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt speaks during a store appearance for her new book "It Seemed Important At The Time" October 13, 2004 at Barnes and Noble bookstore in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Chernin/Getty Images)

(Original Caption) Portrait of Gloria Vanderbilt. (Photo by Eric Robert/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NY - CIRCA 1980: Gloria Vanderbilt and her sons Anderson Cooper (L) and Carter Cooper photographed in New York City, circa 1980. (Photo by PL Gould/IMAGES/Getty Images)

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and diarist Ned Rorem and Gloria Vanderbilt photographed in New York City in 1992. (Photo by Jack Mitchell/Getty Images)

FILE - In this Feb. 3, 1981 file photo, fashion designers, from left to right: Halston; Bob Mackie; Gloria Vanderbilt and Geoffrey Beene pose on the set of the "Love Boat" at Warner Brothers Studio in Los Angeles, Calif. Vanderbilt, the intrepid heiress, artist and romantic who began her extraordinary life as the "poor little rich girl" of the Great Depression, survived family tragedy and multiple marriages and reigned during the 1970s and '80s as a designer jeans pioneer, died Monday, June 17, 2019, at the age of 95. (AP Photo/Wally Fong/File)

Portrait of socialite/designer Gloria Vanderbilt sitting amidst a group of models bending over to accent the rear of her designer jeans. (Photo by Evelyn Floret/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images)

Ron Galella, Gordon Parks, and Gloria Vanderbilt during Lerner And Lowe Tribute Party at Xenon in New York City, New York, United States. (Photo by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)

Swiss-born socialite Gloria Vanderbilt and her two sons, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper (1965 - 1988) (left) and Anderson Cooper, walk along a sidewalk in New York, New York, March 1976. Anderson is dressed in riding habit, complete with a helmet and whip. (Photo by Susan Wood/Getty Images)

Portrait of American socialite and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt and her sons Anderson and Carter Cooper (1965 - 1988) on a bed in their home, Southampton, Long Island, New York, March 30, 1972. (Photo by Jack Robinson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Portrait of American heiress and socialite (as well as fashion designer and artist) Gloria Vanderbilt as she poses with one of her paintings, New York, New York, June 1968. Her dress, by Adolfo, was designed to match the painting. (Photo by Jack Robinson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Mrs. Wyatt Cooper, better known as Gloria Vanderbilt, peeks over the shoulder of her husband and gives the cameraman a big smile as she arrives at the Criterion Theater, Oct 21, for the world premiere of the movie version of âMy Fair Lady.'

Director Sidney Lumet and his wife, Gloria Vanderbilt, take to the ferris wheel as excitedly as a couple of kids. Roped off for the party, the alley was crowded at both ends by spectators watching the stars at play.

American heiress and socialite Gloria Vanderbilt discuss her poetry on the CBS Radio program 'The Music Room,' where three of them, set to music by composer Alan Hovhaness, were performed by opera singer Nell Tangeman under the title 'Canticle for Voice, Strings, and Woodwinds,' New York, New York, early 1950s. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)

Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski is shown in 1954 during her hours of relaxation at a pool next to her cottage.

(Original Caption) 12/31/1954-New York, NY: Frank Sinatra and Gloria Vanderbilt at the Ambassador Hotel, New Years Eve 1954.

American heiress Gloria Vanderbilt and first husband Pasquale John (Pat) Di Cicco cutting their wedding cake, December 28, 1941. (Photo by Peter Stackpole/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

UNITED STATES - APRIL 14: Holding her palm and assisted by chauffeur, little Gloria Vanderbilt returns to mother's home after attending Palm Sunday services at Church of St. Francis of Assisi on W. 31st St. Should Mrs. Vanderbilt fail to win full custody of daughter, Lady Furness will seek to wrest child from Mrs. Whitney. (Photo by NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

1925: Mr. and Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt standing outdoors, posing with their baby daughter, Gloria Vanderbilt. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 04: Artist Gloria Vanderbilt attends the "Nothing Left Unsaid" New York premiere at Time Warner Center on April 4, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Jim Spellman/WireImage)

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