I was given my first fur when I was 21. It had belonged to my great-aunt, and she left it to me in her will. It is a three quarter-length brown mink, which I so coveted when I was a youngster.

They say that behind "every great man is a great woman," well I like to say "beside every great man, is an even greater, well-dressed woman." ...

Less than six months later, while he was serving as a baker’s delivery boy, he bought his first fur pelt on the New York waterfront in exchange for some sugar buns. Aided by a loan from his ...