Diane von Furstenberg (45 page)

250
     
“They fought a lot”:
Philippe Halfin to the author, August 30, 2001.

250
     
“sooner or later”:
Bridget Foley, “The Wedding Planners,”
WWD,
February 2, 2001.

250
     
“but not really a lot” and following:
Barry Diller to the author, July 15, 2013.

251
     
“I called him and said”:
Kamala Kirk,
O
, November 12, 2014.

251
     
“Am I betraying”:
Bridget Foley, “The Wedding Planners,”
WWD,
February 2, 2001.

251
     
“I told her”:
André Leon Talley to the author, December 4, 2013.

251
     “Make sure you”: Bridget Foley, “The Wedding Planners,”
WWD,
February 2, 2001.

251
     
Maybe one of us”:
Ibid.

251
     
“the three Aquarians”:
Ibid.

252
     
“Diane gave one”:
Ginia Bellafante, “Front Row: Just Plain Egon,”
New York Times,
July 10, 2001.

252
     
“My pattern”:
DVF to the author, August 1, 2014.

252
     
“a merger” and following: New York Times,
February 3, 2001.

253
     
“a bit too Cole Porter”:
Bridget Foley, “The Wedding Planners,”
WWD,
February 2, 2001.

253
     
“I’m so happy”:
TVF to the author, June 15, 2013.

253
     
“madly in love”:
anonymous to the author.

253
     
“I don’t think it would”:
Francois Catroux to the author, September 8, 2011.

253
     
“It boggles the mind”:
André Leon Talley to the author, December 4, 2013.

254
     
“always inventing herself”:
Kathy Landau to the author, August 7, 2013.

254
     
“wouldn’t change a thing”:
Barry Diller to the author, July 15, 2013.

254
     
“insane”:
Leonard McCants, “Spring Is Turning Up Dresses,”
WWD,
October 31, 2000.

Epilogue

258
     
“What I like about women”:
Deborah Kan, “Diane von Furstenberg on China,”
Digital Wall Street Journal,
June 20, 2012.

259
     
“I don’t think about legacy”:
Barry Diller to the author, July 15, 2013.

259
     
“I want to be remembered”:
DVF to Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart videos.

260
     
“clarity,” and following.
DVF to the author, August 31, 2013.

260
     
“one of the best right hands”:
Cathy Horyn, Things Turn in the Right Direction,”
New York Times,
February 13, 2012.

260
     
“had gone off brand,”
DVF to the author, May 21, 2013.

261
     
“accessibility”:
Vanessa Friedman, “Some Get the Point: Tommy Hilfiger, Diane von Furstenberg, Carolina Herrera, The Row,”
New York Times
, September 8, 2014.

261
     
“haul[ed] away”:
Eric Wilson, “Is New York Fashion Week Near the End of the Runway?”
New York Times,
September 4, 2013.

261
     
“the United States is”:
Diane von Furstenberg, “Fashion Deserves Copyright Protection,”
Los Angeles Times,
August 24, 2007.

263
     
“Everyone here better be”:
Charlotte Cowles,
The Cut,
nymag.com, September 8, 2012.

263
     
“who have survived”:
“DVF Honors Women Leaders,”
Daily Beast,
February 10, 2010.

265
     
“She wants to be” and following:
AVF to the author, June 17, 2013.

266
     
“I believe in the circle”:
DVF to the author, October 28, 2010 and July 16, 2011.

266
     
“hates fashion” and following:
TVF to the author, June 15, 2013.

266
     
“was super hard” and following:
AVF to the author, June 17, 2013.

267
     
“My son was jealous”: New York Post, Page Six Magazine,
February 11, 2010.

267
     
“I remember a holiday”:
Bob Colacello to the author, December 6, 2011.

268
     
“and the first one to believe:”
DVF to the author, July 16, 2011.

268
     
“He’d had a lot of shame” and following:
TVF to the author, June 15, 2013.

268
     
“We all knew” and following:
Marc Landeau to the author, July 19, 2011.

269
     
“I liked the fact”:
Diane von Furstenberg,
Diane: A Signature Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), p. 206.

269
     
“I don’t like to stay
,”
Boston Common,
Fall 2012.

269
     
“She’ll talk about”:
DVF to the author, August 1, 2013.

270
     
“I don’t want to be”:
DVF to the author, October 3, 2013.

271
     
“What defines me”:
DVF to the author, July 31, 2014.

272
     
“Don’t let her look”:
Ellen Gross to the author, October 2, 2013.

Index

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A

Abzug, Bella, 108

Adams, Amy, 258

Adrian, 111

African American models, 87

Agnelli, Gianni, 35, 49–50, 53, 61, 72, 184

Agnelli, Giovanni, 192

Agnelli family, 35, 36, 59, 116, 166

Aidan, Bernard, 242

AIDS, 61, 72, 167, 169–70, 179, 200, 247

Aimée, Anouk, 188

Alaïa, Azzedine, 201, 240

Albers, Josef, 61, 70

Altschul, Serena, 228

Amazon.com, 218

anti-Semitism, 57–58, 60

Anuszkiewicz, Richard, 70

Arden, Elizabeth, 125, 207

Astor, Brooke, 53

Auletta, Ken, 213

Aulin, Ewa, 112

Auschwitz, Lily in, 15–16, 22, 173

Avon, 226–27, 228, 237

B

Bailey, David, 38

Baker, Blanche, 173

Baker, Josephine, 87

Balenciaga, 44, 85

Balthus, 195

Bardot, Brigitte, 42

Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 139, 193

Bass, Mercedes, 253

Baumgold, Julie, 144, 174, 177

Beaton, Cecil, 142

Beatty, Warren, 116

Beecham, 181, 197

Beene, Geoffrey, 186

Belle Epoque, 29

Benigni, Roberto, 239

Bennetts, Leslie, 107

Berenson, Bernard, 42

Berenson, Berry, 42, 75, 100

Berenson, Marisa, 42–45, 46, 49, 50, 60, 75, 143, 194, 202, 220

Bergdorf Goodman, 75, 90, 143, 161

Bergé, Pierre, 109, 195

Bergen, Candice, 65, 108

Berger, Helmut, 50

Berlin, Mrs. Richard, 91

Berlin Wall, fall of, 204

Bernhard, Sandra, 183–84

Bertin, Rose, 74, 75

Best and Co., 62

Betancourt, Ingrid, 264–65

Betts, Katherine, 211

Blahnik, Manolo, 211

Blass, Bill, 74, 84, 85, 87, 92, 96, 117, 124, 246

Blatnik, Vlady, 30

Bloomingdale’s, 78, 128, 144, 152, 227, 243, 265

B’nai B’rith, 173

Bohan, Marc, 59, 87

Bohlen, Arndt von, 60

Bonwit Teller, 152, 200

Boucher, François, 44

Bouquin, Jean, 76

Bourbon del Monte, Carlo, 57

Bowles, Paul, 189, 191, 203

Boyar, Francine, 78, 101, 108, 116

Brantes, Guy de, 138

Braun, Craig, 246

Bravo, Rose Marie, 178, 228–29, 231

Brodsky, Joseph, 193

Brown, Jerry, 137–38, 184

Bruna (pattern maker), 94, 106

Brussels:

Halfin family in, 17–19

Nazis in, 12–15

Buck, Joan Juliet, 195

Burch, Tory, 269

Burlington, 154

Burrows, Stephen, 55, 74, 75, 87, 95, 112

Burton, Richard, 60

C

Cabochard, 94, 99

Campbell, Jane Allen, 35, 57

Campbell, Naomi, 262

Capote, Truman, 53, 75, 139

Capshaw, Kate, 231

Carangi, Gia, 167–69

Cardin, Pierre, 87, 123, 156

Cardinale, Claudia, 51

Carnegie, Hattie, 86

Carradine, Keith, 138

Carter, Jimmy, 149

Cashin, Bonnie, 86, 112

Cassini, Igor, 30

Cassini, Oleg, 30

Castro, Fidel, 204

Catroux, François, 110, 194, 196, 253

Chanel, 84, 190, 202, 231, 259, 265

Chanel, Coco, 29, 73, 75, 86, 109, 186, 243

Chanel No. 5, 92, 126, 259

Chang, Jung,
Wild Swans,
220

Chatwin, Bruce, 191

Chopra, Deepak, 220, 221

Cicogna, Marina, 35, 50–51, 171

Claiborne, Liz, 99, 147, 236, 245

Clark, Ossie, 29, 76

Clemente, Francesco, 270

Clinton, Bill, 221, 269

Clinton, Hillary, 263, 264

Close, Chuck, 258

Cloudwalk, Connecticut, 9–10, 117–18, 136, 178, 179, 180, 192, 269–70

Cocteau, Jean, 29, 73

Cohen, Andy, 258

Cohen, Patti, 198

Cohn, Roy, 159–60

Colacello, Bob, 54, 60, 71, 72, 74–75, 114–15, 141, 144, 166, 171, 268