Fuck Yeah Zelda Kaplan!

“To live like today could be your last. You never know when it will be. I am so lucky and blessed if you must know. I have seen and felt so many things and all the people I have met I will never forget them.”- Zelda

Sitting in the front row of a fashion show, Zelda Kaplan, 95, a fixture of Manhattan night life, collapsed on Wednesday and was later pronounced dead.

Ms. Kaplan was at the designer Joanna Mastroianni’s show at Lincoln Center, part of New York Fashion Week. She was pronounced dead at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, according to a hospital spokeswoman, who could not provide a cause of death.

“She flopped over in my lap,” said Ruth Finley, publisher of The Fashion Calendar. “The show was just starting. I thought she fainted.”

Ms. Kaplan was known for her presence on the arts scene and at parties. She was the subject of a 2004 documentary, “Her Name is Zelda.” Material for the film described Ms. Kaplan’s evolution from a “typical suburban housewife” to “a beloved and eccentric creature of New York night life.”

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