T&C HISTORY
1985 SOCIAL REGISTER Nina Griscom, the ’80s It girl, model, and entrepreneur—who died in January at age 65—was the rare uptown socialite with a true rebel streak. She appeared on T&C’s cover three times, and she wrote in a 2012 column that she picked up her pack-a-day Marlboro habit at a Swiss boarding school, age 12. She ran with Bill Blass and Blaine Trump and made Park Avenue fun again (in her early sixties she got a porcupine tattoo on her forearm to support a sick friend). On December 8 Christie’s will auction off pieces from her jewelry collection, giving a new generation the chance to own some of her unconventional New York style, the kind of larger-than-life flair that draws so many to the Imperial City.…