Avery Trufelman

And so did Linda.

But in the pictures in her scrapbook, all the glamour appears to be taking a toll on her.

She actually gained a lot of weight in only a few months from all the stress and traveling.

And she was spending a lot of money.

Financial repercussions, body dysmorphia.

Linda started to wonder exactly why she was doing all this.

I didn't want to depend on anyone for anything, Susan Train told a Vogue journalist in 2007.

I never wanted to be identified with one clique.

The profile adds that Susan Train knew every designer but kept a professional distance and that she intentionally did not spend time with Americans.

Linda apparently was an exception.

In watching Susan, Linda realized that she didn't want to be quite so addicted to her work or quite so lonely or quite so thin.

And then the best possible thing happened.

The show ended.

The Teatro de la Mode went back to Maryhill, and so did Linda, back to her little house on the cliff.

But this whirlwind experience made Linda ready to move on.

She went to live in New York for a spell, and then eventually went back west.

And she lives in Portland now, and she's spent much of her career working in museums and collections there.

She can drive to the Maryhill Museum of Art in two hours.

And she does, every so often.

To remember this beacon of hope for post-war France