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Byline: Jonathan Van Meter. Photographed by Norman Jean Roy
After nearly six decades in show business, Diahann Carroll knows a thing or two about style and staying power.
The elevator doors of her Los Angeles apartment building ding, and Diahann Carroll swans into the lobby in a black Oscar de la Renta suit with wide cuffed pants, a crisp white shirt, and Chanel ballet flats. She has worn wigs for many years, and the one she favors lately is streaked with blonde highlights and is a bit shaggy chic. It looks as if it had been styled by Sally Hershberger or may have once belonged to Tina Turner. Carroll moves like a woman half her age (she is 73). In fact, ...