Diane von Furstenberg (38 page)

21
     
“He said it was part”:
Lorna MacDonald to the author, December 5, 2011.

21
     
“Lilly didn’t seem”:
Fran Lebowitz to the author, April 1, 2011.

22
     
“no numbers”:
Halfin to the author, August 30, 2011.

22
     
“She was so depleted”:
TVF to the author, June 15, 2013.

22
     
“She was a tiger mom”:
DVF to the author, October 2, 2014.

23
     
“When I was eight”:
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 40.

23
     
“I still feel sorry”:
DVF in conversation with Fern Mallis at the 92nd Street Y, September 12, 2012.

23
     
“pretending we were princesses”:
Hanover to the author, September 2, 2011.

23
     
“It would be something”:
Miriam Wittamer to the author, September 3, 2011.

24
     
“totally sure”:
von Furstenberg,
Woman I Wanted to Be,
p. 94.

24
     
“were two devils,”
Hanover to the author, September 2, 2011.

24
     
“Beware, your parents”:
Ibid.

24
     
“I’m sure it was”:
TVF to the author, June 15, 2013.

25
     
“during the years”:
Martin Muller to the author, September 27, 2013.

25
     
“I never saw”:
Ibid.

25
     
“By his early thirties”:
Ibid.

26
     
“become a woman soon”
and following: Marlo Thomas,
The Right Words at the Right Time
(New York, Atria, reprint, 2002), p. 107.

26
     
“I didn’t recognize Diane”:
Halfin to the author, August 30, 2011.

26
     
“My mother wanted me”:
DVF to the author, October 2, 2014.

26
     
“my grandparents were trying”:
TVF to the author, June 15, 2013.

27
     
“The divorce was war”:
Halfin to the author, August 30, 2011.

27
     
“Growing up I was:”
Alexander Fury, “An Audience with a Living Legend: Diane von Furstenberg Has Fashion All Wrapped Up,”
Independent,
November 2, 2013.

28
     
“at fifteen I was”:
DVF to the author, October 2, 2014.

28
     
“She was very shy”:
DVF to the author, September 12, 2014.

30
     
“had no social life” and following:
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
pp. 46–47.

30
     
“a gaudy dream”:
Taki,
Nothing to Declare: A Memoir
(New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991), p. xi.

31
     
“one thing I don’t”:
DVF to the author, August 31, 2013.

Egon

33
     
“I looked tan”:
Diane von Furstenberg:
Diane: A Signature Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), p. 48.

34
     
“Every pretty girl”:
Michael Gross, “The Education of Diane von Furstenberg,”
Manhattan, Inc.,
February 1985.

34
     
“chubbier than she is”:
Nona Gordon to the author, December 2010.

35
     
“Egon was beautiful”:
Marina Cicogna to the author, November 28, 2012.

35
     
“to go to Paris”:
Ibid.

36
     
“were very spoiled” and following:
Ibid.

36
     
“My grandfather”:
Alexandre von Furstenberg to the author, June 17, 2013.

36
     
“oyster-in-an-r-month,”
Stanley Elkin,
Searches & Seizures,
ebook, location 2620.

36
     
“He was adorable”:
Gordon to the author, December 4, 2010.

36
     
“Egon wasn’t studying”:
Marc Landeau to the author.

37
     
“childish,”
DVF to the author, July 3, 2014.

37
     
“like a rich girl,”
Barbara Rowes, “Women Buy, but Men Dominate the Fashion World: Then Along Came Diane von Furstenberg,”
People,
May 21, 1979.

37
     
“At the time”:
DVF to the author, August 1, 2014.

37
     
“I wanted to see whether”:
Julie L. Belcove, “Diane’s Wild Ride,”
WWD
, September 17, 1998.

37
     
“He was twenty-seven”
Mireille de Hanover to the author, September 2, 2011.

38
     
“We were all waiting” and following:
Mimmo Ferretti to the author, September 12, 2011.

38
     
“At the time”:
Albert Koski to the author, September 8, 2011.

39
     
“My mother was very”:
Philippe Halfin to the author, August 30, 2011.

39
     
“I was like an assistant”:
DVF to the author, August 1, 2014.

39
     
“Diane was very good”:
Albert Koski to the author, September 8, 2011.

39
     
“I had to put together”:
Ibid.

39
     
“There was a lid”:
Thompson to the author, September 8, 2011.

40
     
“when you had a girlfriend”:
Cedric Lopez-Huici to the author, May 13, 2011.

40
     
“Diane was wild”:
Gordon to the author, December 2010.

40
     
“He was the worst lay”:
DVF to the author, August 1, 2014.

40
     
“in the most superficial way,”
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 50.

41
     
“Diane was a plump”
Taki to the author, December 2010.

42
     
“didn’t know [Diane]” and following:
Florence Grinda to the author, September 8, 2011.

42
     
“My whole life”:
Marisa Berenson to the author, October 9, 2012.

43
     
“We became” and following:
Ibid.

44
     
“who was a tyrant”:
DVF to Fern Mallis, conversation at the 92
^nd
Street Y, September 13, 2012

45
     
“I knew everyone”:
Berenson to the author, October 9, 2012.

45
     
“We were all Eurotrash” and following:
Ferretti to the author, September 12, 2011.

45
     
“hedonistic pleasure,”
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 51.

46
     
“I didn’t wait”:
Ibid., p. 53.

46
     
“I guess she knew”:
Koski to the author, September 8, 2011.

46
     
“I was looking for”:
DVF to the author, August 1, 2014.

47
     
“He was like a king”:
Sue Feinberg to the author, November 1, 2010.

47
     
“Today he’d be in jail” and following:
DVF to the author, August 1, 2014.

48
     
“It was article 6030”:
Mimmo Ferretti to the author, September 12, 2011.

48
     
“horrible stuff”:
Sue Feinberg to the author, November 1, 2010.

48
     
“Ferretti had thousands” and following:
DVF to the author, October 2, 2014.

49
     
“borrowed a dress”:
Ibid.

49
     
“that I’d lost the love”:
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 52.

49
     
“I was making a lot” and following
, Berenson to the author, October 9, 2012.

49
     
“He used Marisa” and following:
DVF to the author, October 3, 2014.

50
     
“We didn’t think”:
Marisa Berenson to the author, October 9, 2012.

50
     
“When they were with you”:
Gigi Williams to the author, May 14, 2011.

50
     
“She was not terribly”:
Marina Cicogna to the author, November 28, 2012.