Diane von Furstenberg (43 page)

183
     
“You know what people” Manhattan, Inc.
February, 1985.

183
     
“Standouts in the designer’s”:
“Emperor Collection,”
WWD
, October 29, 1984.

184
     
“Andy Warhol”:
Warhol,
Warhol Diaries,
p. 714.

184
     
“My mom fell”:
AVF to the author, June 17, 2013.

184
     
“He had no chin” and following:
DVF to the author, October 3, 2014.

184
     
“I was just out”:
Alain Elkann to the author, February 11, 2013.

185
     
“Paulo was very upset” and following:
DVF to the author, October 3, 2014.

185
     
“I got a call” and following:
Olivier Gelbsman to the author, September 9, 2011.

185
     
“going the Marilyn Monroe”:
Warhol,
Warhol Diaries
, p. 769.

186
     
“designing very expensive products”:
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 184.

186
     
“is something so central”:
Fran Lebowitz to the author.

187
     
“There’d been a fuckup”:
anonymous to the author, July 11, 2011.

187
     
“she suffered”:
Olivier Gelbsman to the author, September 9, 2011.

187
     
“Elkann was very controlling”:
Barry Diller to the author, July 15, 2013.

188
     
“a boring doormat,”
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 185.

188
     
“she always became”:
AVF to the author, June 17, 2013.

189
     
“I was there because of”:
James Fox in an email to the author, June 19, 2013.

189
     
“hummingbirds on nectar,”
Frederick Seidel, “Nectar,”
Poems, 1959–2009
(ebook). p. 54.

189
     
“I remember asking her”:
Frederick Seidel to the author, June 18, 2013.

189
     
“what she did”:
Edmund White,
Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris
(London: Bloomsbury, 2014) p. 20.

190
     
“felt a little pang”:
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 192.

191
     
“I didn’t want to get back”:
Ibid.

191
     
“We were a family”:
Ibid., p. 193.

192
     
“Fundamentally, what I” and following:
John Elkann to the author, July 29, 2013.

192
     
“She had no business”:
AVF to the author, June 17, 2013.

192
     
“That’s her key”:
Linda Bird Francke to the author, September 17, 2014.

192
     
“It was annoying”:
AVF to the author, June 17, 2013.

193
     
“The award was”:
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 190

193
     
“was so much more” and following:
Alain Elkann to the author, February 11, 2013.

194
     
“he was not happy”:
DVF to the author, July 31, 2014.

194
     
“When a woman”:
Alain Elkann to the author, February 11, 2013.

194
     
“très proche”:
Francois Catroux to the author, September 8, 2011.

194
     
“with none of the”:
Alicia Drake,
The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
(New York: Little Brown, 2006), p. 97.

195
     
“a refusal to accept”:
Joan Juliet Buck, “Blythe Spirit,”
W
, February 2012.

195
     
“She was this mad”:
Drake,
Beautiful Fall,
p. 101.

196
     
“Loulou fell in love”:
Catroux to the author.

196
     
“She could have had”:
Alain Elkann to the author, February 11, 2013.

196
     
“would be twenty-five now,”
DVF to the author, August 1, 2014.

196
     
“there were others,”
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 196.

196
     
“Alain and I have become”:
DVF diary entry, April 1989.

196
     
“terrible morning”:
Ibid., May 30, 1989.

196
     
“So goes Alain with the tooth,”
DVF to the author, August 1, 2014.

Can We Shop?

197
     
“junk” and following:
Georgia Dullea, “On the Way Home With: Diane von Furstenberg; Always Room for Old Beaus,”
New York Times,
December 23, 1993.

198
     
“Donna designed”:
Patti Cohen to the author, December 1, 2011.

199
     
“the heroic female”:
Amy M. Spindler, “For Karan and Lauren, Tent-Free Triumphs” (Reviews/Fashion)
New York Times,
April 4, 1996.

199
     
“selling imagery”:
Michael Gross,
Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren
(New York: HarperPerennial, 2004), p. 205.

201
     
“established a product”:
Stephen Koepp, “Selling a Dream of Elegance and the Good Life,”
Time
, September 1, 1986.

202
     
“who has this great, great”:
anonymous to the author, July 2011.

202
     
“a licensing business” and following, Interview,
July 1989.

203
     
“Mort Zuckerman is”:
DVF to the author, August 1, 2014.

203
     “I would have preferred”: Diane von Furstenberg,
Diane: A Signature Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), p. 204.

204
     
“charming”:
Ibid., p. 205.

204
     
“I had no business”:
Ibid., p. 209.

204
     
“My father was going”:
Irving Rousso, in
Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags,
directed by Marc Levin (Home Box Office, Blowback Productions, 2009).

205
     
“This third child” and following:
Kathy Landau to the author, August 7, 2013.

206
     
“I ate a lot of . . .”:
Georgia Dullea, “On the Way Home With: Diane von Furstenberg; Always Room for Old Beaus”
New York Times,
December 23, 1993.

206
     
“I was marginally happier”:
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 210.

206
     
“In that case”:
Kathy Landau to the author, August 7, 2013.

206
     
“It was nothing” and following:
Kathy Van Ness to the author, August 27, 2013.

207
     
“I feel like a fool,”
Dianne M. Pogoda, “Von Furstenberg’s Window Dressing,”
WWD,
March 31, 1992.

208
     
“God Bless QVC”:
Interview, Joan Rivers,
Time Out Chicago,
July 27, 2009.

209
     
“Barry, you’ve got to”:
Ken Auletta, “Barry Diller’s Search for the Future,”
The New Yorker,
February 22, 1993.

210
     
“It was the first time”:
Barry Diller to the author, July 15, 2013.

210
     
“Why are we bothering” and following:
Marvin Traub with Lisa Marsh,
Like No Other Career
(New York: Assouline, 2008), p. 50.

211
     
“Please, let’s not” and following:
Katherine Betts, “Show and Sell,”
Vogue,
February 1993, pp. 82–86.

213
     
“was my transition”:
Diller to the author. July 15, 2013

213
     
“Diners passing Diller”:
Ken Auletta, “Barry Diller’s Search for the Future,”
New Yorker,
February 22, 1993.

213
     
“Could you please”:
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 217.

214
     
“I’m having fun”:
Frederick Seidel to the author, June 18, 2013.

214
     
“sitting in the greenroom”:
Georgia Dullea, “On the Way Home with Diane von Furstenberg: Always Room for Old Beaus,”
The New York Times,
December 23, 1993.

214
     
“getting back together”:
Barry Diller to the author. July 15, 2013.

214
     
“a power couple”: Vanity Fair
’s 1993 Hall of Fame,
Vanity Fair,
December 1993.

215
     
“Diller is almost a husband”:
James Barron (with Geraldine Fabrikant and Linda Lee), “Public Lives,”
New York Times,
January 30, 2001.

215
     
“I always fight that:
DVF to the author, August 1, 2014.

215
     
“hears my name”:
Frank DiGiacomo, “Irresistible and Slightly Lethal,”
The New York Observer,
October 13, 1997.