arella Agnelli is today best known as one of Truman Capote's “Swans” — the coterie of New York socialites ruled by the formidable fashion editor piece known as (more recently adapted for television, starring Naomi Watts as Paley). The group epitomized 1960s style and elegance, and Agnelli was perhaps the most elegant of them all. Capote, as reported by his friend Katherine Graham, once said that if Paley and Agnelli “were both in Tiffany's window, Marella would be more expensive.”
