 She lived in an apartment at the Plaza Hotel and wore clothes by Manhattan couturier Hattie Carnegie.It was around this time that the author Anaïs Nin wrote about her infatuation with Bate in her personal diary.Bate was at a party in the Park Avenue apartment of photographer George Platt Lynes, a friend who used her as a subject in his photographs, when she met Lynes' assistant, Jonathan Tichenor, in 1943.