I'm in my first year as a quinquagenarian (yep, SAT word) and life sure looks different these days. After two decades in New ...

made her name in the 1970s and '80s as a designer jeans pioneer. AFP/Getty Images Vanderbilt was also an actress and the author of several books "Gloria Vanderbilt was an extraordinary woman ...

I even wear Gloria Vanderbilt jeans. There ... They marked the first major jeanswear brand for women actually designed by a woman. Gloria was a model in her teens, then later became an artist ...

Gloria Vanderbilt jeans hit the market in 1976, when I was 2. (That's when my mom was rocking her GVs at the gas station like nobody's business!) They marked the first major jeanswear brand for women ...