THE LATE LIZ TILBERIS DEFINED FASHION AT "BAZAAR," AND CLASS EVERYWHERE.

In April 1992, Michael Gross wrote the New York magazine "War of the Poses" cover story, on the pending rivalry between Vogue editor- in-chief Anna Wintour and Tilberis, whose debut issue at Harper's Bazaar would come that September. The inference that Gross expounded upon--and others at the time did, too--was that Tilberis was the latest in a line of snooty, know-it-all Brits (she succeeded Wintour as British Vogue editor-in-chief in 1997) who would demand to be treated regally at the right fashion shows and the right restaurants.