When She Was "It" – The 70s

You could find the "It" girls... visiting Halston at his salon in Olympic Tower and his house on East 63rd Street, shopping at the Biba counter at Bloomingdale's and the Courrèges store on 57th, after hours at Maxwell's Plum and Max's Kansas City or coupled up on Fire Island or at a New York Dolls show at the Marcer Arts Center, dancing at Studio 54 (ar Xanan, if it was just too hard to get in that night), getting one of the dozen burgers served every night at Raoul's, having lunch with their mothers at La Côte Basque or La Grenouille, where they discussed Fear of Flying.

Marisa Berenson

"In the wave of nostalgia that has grown out of the guilty aftertaste of the '60s, society is spinning backward at a terrific rate. And Marisa is perfect to lead the retreat. Even the words her friends use to describe her are old-fashioned. Marisa is always there, always the most beautiful and most beautifully dressed,' says Paloma Picasso... She is always charming and nice. Drugs 'scare her. Liquor 'doesn't agree with her.' And she doesn't even drink wine. I like nothing that leaves me out of control."

-Steve Saler, "The Girl Who Has Everything Plus," Newsweek, 1973