Who

A contributing editor at Vogue, Connor is a mainstay on the black-tie benefit circuit.

Backstory

The granddaughter of Marshall Field the 3rd, the founder of the Chicago Sun (it was her great-great-grandfather who founded the retail empire), Marina was raised by her eccentric heiress mom and spent her childhood living in a trailer in Mississippi and a commune in Oregon, before being shipped back to her dad at the age of nine. She attended a tony Connecticut boarding school and went to college at Duke, after which she joined the staff of Vogue and established herself as a fixture at galas and black tie events. These days, Connor is a contributing editor to the mag—she often acts as a guinea pig for oddball beauty treatments and reports on the results—but she can also be counted on to lend her name to various worthy causes. Along with Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer, Lauren du Pont, and Nathalie Gerschel Kaplan, she's a longtime host of the Frick Collection's Young Fellows Ball.

Personal

Rust married investment banker Ian Connor in 1999. The nuptials, which were planned by Bronson Van Wyck and held in Maine, generated—not surprisingly—a four-page spread in Vogue. The couple has two daughters, Caroline and Lara, and lives on East 70th Street.

In print

In 1993, shortly after graduating college, Marina published a novel entitled Gatherings. A used copy of the book, which Publisher's Weekly described as "off-putting and confusing," can be had for just a few cents on Amazon.com.