Le Journal de la Photographie

A ballerina entertains at the Cuevas Ball. © Time Life Pictures/Getty Images

Nicholas Foulkes A ballerina entertains at the Cuevas Ball. © Time Life Pictures/Getty Images Nicholas Foulkes John Jacob Astor IV, who would later die on the Titanic. © Bettmann/Corbis Nicholas Foulkes Three masks designed by Oliver Messel, worn by Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe) and her two escorts to Beaumont’s Flora and Fauna Ball. © Condé Nast Archive/Corbis Nicholas Foulkes "French starlet Zizi Jeanmaire, her not soeighteenth- century costume, and her camel brought a hint of the circus and a touch of the burlesque to the Cuevas Ball." © Vagn Hansen/BIPs/Getty Images Nicholas Foulkes Fashion designer Pierre Balmain displays some fancy footwork. © Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images Nicholas Foulkes "Lee Radziwill, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy and a star among Capote’s beloved society swans, adjusts her mask." © Bettmann/Corbis Nicholas Foulkes Marisa Berenson dressed for the Rothschilds’ Proust ball as La Casati. Photo by Cecil Beaton. Cecil Beaton/Vogue © The Condé Nast Publications Ltd Nicholas Foulkes Bals Slipcase: Lee Radziwill at Truman Capote's Black and White Ball, November 1966 © Bettmann/Corbis