PALM BEACH PULSE Florida's island paradise lures in the offseason

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: May 9, 2004| Author: Jae-Ha Kim | Copyright information

Some might say that the season officially is over in Palm Beach. Try telling that to Lilly Pulitzer. The designer socialite lives year- round in her "jungle" on the island, and she wouldn't have it any other way.

"It's not the lifestyle in Palm Beach that's so great," Pulitzer says. "It's the life--the sun, the light, the sand, great weather all year round. There's swimming, sailing, tennis, golf. It's a paradise. The eyes of the whole world were focused on this little sand spit!"

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