Diane von Furstenberg (38 page)
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Authors: Gioia Diliberto
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“He said it was part”:
Lorna MacDonald to the author, December 5, 2011.
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“Lilly didn’t seem”:
Fran Lebowitz to the author, April 1, 2011.
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“no numbers”:
Halfin to the author, August 30, 2011.
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“She was so depleted”:
TVF to the author, June 15, 2013.
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“She was a tiger mom”:
DVF to the author, October 2, 2014.
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“When I was eight”:
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 40.
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“I still feel sorry”:
DVF in conversation with Fern Mallis at the 92nd Street Y, September 12, 2012.
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“pretending we were princesses”:
Hanover to the author, September 2, 2011.
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“It would be something”:
Miriam Wittamer to the author, September 3, 2011.
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“totally sure”:
von Furstenberg,
Woman I Wanted to Be,
p. 94.
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“were two devils,”
Hanover to the author, September 2, 2011.
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“Beware, your parents”:
Ibid.
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“I’m sure it was”:
TVF to the author, June 15, 2013.
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“during the years”:
Martin Muller to the author, September 27, 2013.
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“I never saw”:
Ibid.
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“By his early thirties”:
Ibid.
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“become a woman soon”
and following: Marlo Thomas,
The Right Words at the Right Time
(New York, Atria, reprint, 2002), p. 107.
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“I didn’t recognize Diane”:
Halfin to the author, August 30, 2011.
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“My mother wanted me”:
DVF to the author, October 2, 2014.
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“my grandparents were trying”:
TVF to the author, June 15, 2013.
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“The divorce was war”:
Halfin to the author, August 30, 2011.
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“Growing up I was:”
Alexander Fury, “An Audience with a Living Legend: Diane von Furstenberg Has Fashion All Wrapped Up,”
Independent,
November 2, 2013.
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“at fifteen I was”:
DVF to the author, October 2, 2014.
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“She was very shy”:
DVF to the author, September 12, 2014.
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“had no social life” and following:
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
pp. 46–47.
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“a gaudy dream”:
Taki,
Nothing to Declare: A Memoir
(New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991), p. xi.
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“one thing I don’t”:
DVF to the author, August 31, 2013.
Egon
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“I looked tan”:
Diane von Furstenberg:
Diane: A Signature Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), p. 48.
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“Every pretty girl”:
Michael Gross, “The Education of Diane von Furstenberg,”
Manhattan, Inc.,
February 1985.
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“chubbier than she is”:
Nona Gordon to the author, December 2010.
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“Egon was beautiful”:
Marina Cicogna to the author, November 28, 2012.
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“to go to Paris”:
Ibid.
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“were very spoiled” and following:
Ibid.
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“My grandfather”:
Alexandre von Furstenberg to the author, June 17, 2013.
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“oyster-in-an-r-month,”
Stanley Elkin,
Searches & Seizures,
ebook, location 2620.
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“He was adorable”:
Gordon to the author, December 4, 2010.
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“Egon wasn’t studying”:
Marc Landeau to the author.
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“childish,”
DVF to the author, July 3, 2014.
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“like a rich girl,”
Barbara Rowes, “Women Buy, but Men Dominate the Fashion World: Then Along Came Diane von Furstenberg,”
People,
May 21, 1979.
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“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.
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“He was twenty-seven”
Mireille de Hanover to the author, September 2, 2011.
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“We were all waiting” and following:
Mimmo Ferretti to the author, September 12, 2011.
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“At the time”:
Albert Koski to the author, September 8, 2011.
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“My mother was very”:
Philippe Halfin to the author, August 30, 2011.
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“I was like an assistant”:
DVF to the author, August 1, 2014.
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“Diane was very good”:
Albert Koski to the author, September 8, 2011.
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“I had to put together”:
Ibid.
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“There was a lid”:
Thompson to the author, September 8, 2011.
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“when you had a girlfriend”:
Cedric Lopez-Huici to the author, May 13, 2011.
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“Diane was wild”:
Gordon to the author, December 2010.
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“He was the worst lay”:
DVF to the author, August 1, 2014.
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“in the most superficial way,”
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 50.
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“Diane was a plump”
Taki to the author, December 2010.
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“didn’t know [Diane]” and following:
Florence Grinda to the author, September 8, 2011.
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“My whole life”:
Marisa Berenson to the author, October 9, 2012.
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“We became” and following:
Ibid.
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“who was a tyrant”:
DVF to Fern Mallis, conversation at the 92
nd
Street Y, September 13, 2012
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“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.
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“I didn’t wait”:
Ibid., p. 53.
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“I guess she knew”:
Koski to the author, September 8, 2011.
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“I was looking for”:
DVF to the author, August 1, 2014.
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“He was like a king”:
Sue Feinberg to the author, November 1, 2010.
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“Today he’d be in jail” and following:
DVF to the author, August 1, 2014.
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“It was article 6030”:
Mimmo Ferretti to the author, September 12, 2011.
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“horrible stuff”:
Sue Feinberg to the author, November 1, 2010.
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“Ferretti had thousands” and following:
DVF to the author, October 2, 2014.
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“borrowed a dress”:
Ibid.
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“that I’d lost the love”:
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 52.
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“I was making a lot” and following
, Berenson to the author, October 9, 2012.
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“He used Marisa” and following:
DVF to the author, October 3, 2014.
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“We didn’t think”:
Marisa Berenson to the author, October 9, 2012.
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“When they were with you”:
Gigi Williams to the author, May 14, 2011.
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“She was not terribly”:
Marina Cicogna to the author, November 28, 2012.
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