Like her globe-trotting mother, Gloria Morgan, and like Reggie, with his taste for horses and cars, she spent lavishly, almost heedlessly, on anything that might bring pleasure: on houses and furnishings, gifts for friends, charities, and fine clothes. She worked hard, however, she always had, painting and designing fabrics and home furnishings, and by the late 1970s she began to make millions on her own in fashion, with the licensing of those famous jeans—a whole generation of Gen X women still thinks of blue jeans before railroads when they hear the name “Vanderbilt”—but she never thought to
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