Millicent Rogers

1902 Birth

Milicent Rogers was born on 1 February 1902. Her paternal grandfather was one of Rockefeller's partners in Standard Oil so she was later called "The standard oil heiress".

She grew up in Manhattan, Tuxedo Park, and Southampton, New York.

As a young child Millicent Rogers contracted rheumatic fever and suffered from poor health for the rest of her life, having multiple heart attacks, bouts with double pneumonia, and a mostly crippled left arm by the time she was 40 years old.

1920s Socialite

In the 1920s, as a young woman Millicent Rogers became well-known on the socialite scene, and photographs of her were often featured in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. And Newspaper gossip columns, regularly detailed her personal life.

In January 1924, Rogers eloped with an Austrian Count, Ludwig von Salm-Hoogstraeten, a professional tennis player and an aspiring film actor. They were married in a New York courtroom; she was 21 years old and the groom was 38. They were divorced in April 1927.

On November 8, 1927, she married her second husband Arturo Peralta-Ramos in the parish house of the Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary in Southampton, Long Island. Arturo would file for divorce in 1935.

1932: Exile in Europe

Since 1932, Millicent Rogers lived as an expatriate , settling in St. Anton, Austria in 1934, and remaining in Europe until World War II broke out.

On February 26, 1936, in Vienna, Austria, Millicent Rogers married Ronald Balcom, an American stockbroker, it was her third and last time, and this marriage would also end a few years later in February 1941.

Millicent Rogers portrait by Horst P. Horst

Other than her three husbands, Millicent Rogers was also romantically linked to various men throughout her life, most of whom famous and prominent, such as British author author Ian Fleming and Roald Dahl, American actor Clark Gable, Russian Prince Serge Obolensky, Italian Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, an heir to the Italian throne, even the Prince of Wal es.

1947: Love affair with New Mexico

MIllicent Rogers at her 18 century Virginia House Claremont Manor, 1947, Conde Nast Archive

In 1947, after a heart broken affair with Clark Gable, Millicent Rogers went to Taos, New Mexico, convinced by her friend costume designer Gilbert Adrian and his wife Janet Gaynor, and she decided to live in Mexico permanently, gaving up her life style and her social circles.

It was in New Mexico, she fell in love with the Native American artifacts, in particular the jewelleries made of natural stones, and she would spend the rest of her life collecting and promoting them.

"Dear Paulie, Did I ever tell you about the feeling I had a little while ago? Suddenly passing Taos Mountain I felt that I was part of the earth, so that I felt the sun on my surface and the rain. I felt the stars and the growth of the Moon; under me, rivers ran..."
- Millicent Rogers

1953: Death

On 1 January 1953, Milliceent Rogers died in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Three years after her death, In 1956, her Youngest son Paul Peralta - Ramos founded the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, New Mexico. The museum houses a large collection of Native American, Hispanic, and Euro-American art, with a specific emphasis on northern New Mexico and Taos pieces. It first opened in a temporary location in the mid-1950s, later moving to its permanent location in the late 1960s, a home built by Claude J. K. and Elizabeth Anderson.

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chest / poitrine / busto / pechos / brustumfang  / バスト  / 胸围：

waist / taille / vita / talle / Taillenweite  /ウエスト周囲  / 腰围：

hip / bassin / fianchi / caldera / Hüftumfang / 股関節周囲  / 臀围：

shoe size / chaussure / calzature / calzado / Schuhgröße / 靴のサイズ / 鞋码:

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favorite desingers: Charles James, Mainbocher, Mainbocher, Adrian , Schiaparelli and Valentina.

Millicent Rogers favorite couturier Charles James

Charles James 1906 - 1978

Millicent Rogers posing for Vogue in Charles James dress

Mainbocher with Mrs. Loyal Davis

Gilbert Adrian

Millicent Rogers portrait 1949, photo by Horst P. Horst, Conde Nast Archive

Schiaparelli

Valentina Sanina

Dresses: At the time of her death Millicent Rogers had about 600 couture gowns and an extensive collection of accessories that her family donated to the Brooklyn Museum of Art.