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Article: SOCIALITE NAN KEMPNER, 74.(Biography)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- July 5, 2005
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Byline: Lorna Koski
NEW YORK -- According to the old adage, you can never be too rich or too thin. Nan Kempner was never excessively rich (although she was well-off enough to live in a 16-room apartment on Park Avenue for almost 50 years and to buy couture clothes, as she said herself, she wasn't wealthy enough to be a philanthropist). But she was skinny enough to wear clothes beautifully and become the prototype for the social X-ray. Kempner, who died at home here Sunday of emphysema at the age of 74, divided her time between her Manhattan duplex and her country house in Purchase, N.Y.
Kempner said that her father once told her, "You'll never make it ...