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" &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s no such thing as a chic American woman\u2013the look is always too contrived, it doesn&amp;#039;t come naturally. The one exception is Nan Kempner.&amp;quot; \u2013Diana Vreeland  Above: Nan Kempner&amp;#039;s closet, from a New York Magazine piece last year The incomporable Nan Kempner is one of the few women who took her wardrobe so seriously, it was immortalized at one of the finest art institutions in the world. At last year&amp;#039;s display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, visitors were awestruck by the piles and piles of couture this woman managed to collect (and more impressively, find occasion to wear) throughout her 75 years of living an almost unbelievably glamorous life.  On Monday, her legacy lives on when Christie&amp;#039;s auctions off 60 lots of her clothing, from Michael Kors and Lacroix to Oscar and, her most beloved, Yves Saint Laurent. All of the proceeds are going to the Memorial Sloane Kettering cancer center, where Kempner left her mark as a tireless philanthropist. Visit www.christies.com for more information.        Lots from the Christie&amp;#039;s auction, clockwise from top left: Oscar de la Renta, YSL, Michael Kors, and Dior "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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