Diane von Furstenberg (39 page)

51
     
“and this way”:
DVF to the author, October 4, 2014.

New York

54
     
“Diane tried desperately”:
Bob Colacello to the author, December 6, 2011.

54
     
“Egon introduced me to all”:
DVF to the author, October 3, 2014.

54
     
“He was in perpetual”:
Colacello to the author, December 6, 2011.

54
     
“He never really made any money”:
AVF to the author, June 17, 2013.

55
     
“boy-about-town”
DVF to the author, October 3, 2014.

55
     
“What I did know”:
Diane von Furstenberg,
The Woman I Wanted to Be
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014), p. 14.

56
     
I’M SORRY TO DISTURB:
DVF to EVF, telegram in DVF’s possession.

56
     
“We were in this little”:
Marc Landeau to the author, July 19, 2011.

56
     
MARRIAGE WILL OCCUR:
EVF to DVF, telegram in DVF’s possession.

56
     
“Egon wasn’t the most” and following:
Landeau to the author, July 19, 2011.

57
     
“They felt that Diane”:
John Richardson to the author, February 21, 2014.

58
     
“Tassilo was the younger”:
AVF to the author, June 17, 2013.

58
     
“Egon is a prince”:
Anonymous to the author.

58
     
“Jews are clever” and following:
Linda Bird Francke, “The Couple That Has Everything. Is Everything Enough?”
New York,
February 5, 1973.

59
     
“enthusiasm was genuine”
Diane von Furstenberg:
Diane: A Signature Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), p. 57.

59
     
“I got ambitious”:
DVF to the author, October 2, 2014.

59
     
“felt it wasn’t”:
DVF to Fern Mallis, conversation at the 92
^nd
Street Y, September 12, 2012.

59
     
“Romany romantic” and following: Vogue,
October 15, 1969.

59
     
“a charming provincial inn”:
von Furstenberg,
Diane,
pp. 55–56.

60
     
“Eddie”: New York,
February 5, 1973.

60
     
“like a woman,” Town & Country,
August 1970.

60
     
“I have a vision” and following:
Nona Gordon to the author, December 2010.

60
     
“was like Pan”:
Bob Colacello to the author, December 6, 2011.

61
     
“Go to Paris”:
EVF, Ginia Bellafante, “Front Row; Just Plain Egon,”
New York Times,
July 10, 2001.

61
     
“That’s the kind of thing” and following:
DVF to the author, August 1, 2014.

62
     
“My strengths have”:
Susan Alai, “Fashion’s Shy Di,”
WWD
, September 10, 1985.

62
     
“I’m involved with”:
Eloise Salholz, “The Little Wrap Returns,”
Newsweek,
February 11, 1985.

62
     
“classic dress bodies”:
Richard Conrad to the author, February 9, 2013.

63
     
“was dancing madly”:
Kenneth Jay Lane to the author, June 9, 2011.

63
     
“I was racked”:
Diane von Furstenberg,
Diane von Furstenberg’s Book of Beauty: How to Be a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977), p. 16.

64
     
“We had the model”:
Grace Mirabella to the author, May 2, 2011.

64
     
“Terrific, terrific, terrific,”
von Furstenberg,
The Woman I Wanted to Be,
p. 151.

64
     
“body-celebrating fashion”:
Amanda Mackenzie Stuart:
Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland
(New York: Harper, 2012), p. 245.

65
     
“the sharks”:
Kathleen Brady, “Diane Means Business,”
WWD,
June 14, 1973.

65
     
“This is princess”:
Bernadine Morris, “For the Princess, A Stylish Business,”
New York Times,
April 21, 1970.

66
     
“who was really crazy”:
Gloria Schiff to the author, January 28, 2013.

66
     
“I think your clothes,”
Diana Vreeland to DVF, private collection.

66
     
“Don’t put me in
Vogue”: Grace Mirabella to the author, May 2, 2011.

68
     
“We were sort of stuck” and following:
John Fairchild to the author, June 9, 2010.

69
     
“Longuette is the length”:
undated
WWD
clip from Diane’s scrapbooks.

69
     
“We object strongly”:
quoted on the blog “A Vintage Ramble,” June 1, 2009.

69
     
“Diane just showed up”:
Ron Ruskin to the author, August 25, 2010.

69
     
“Diane totally charmed”:
Mimmo Ferretti to the author, September 12, 2011.

69
     
“because I’d hardly”:
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 73.

70
     
“I just liked the names”:
DVF to the author, October 3, 2014.

71
     
“being kind of” and following:
Bob Colacello to the author, December 6, 2011.

71
     
“I got the feeling”:
Jann Wenner to the author, March 16, 2011.

71
     
“They invited whoever”:
Howard Rosenman to the author, November 30, 2012.

72
     
“We were smoking” and following:
Bob Colacello to the author, December 6, 2011.

72
     
“It was an amazing”:
Helen Harvey Mills to the author, September 2008.

72
     
“Egon was never”:
DVF to the author, July 31, 2014.

72
     
“Only maids are in love” and following:
Susanna Agnelli,
We Always Wore Sailor Suits
(New York: Bantam, 1976), p. 108.

73
     
“looked at each other”:
Rosenman, “True Blue: Triumph or Turmoil, Diane Von Furstenberg is a Friend to the End,”
Los Angeles Times Magazine,
September 2009.

73
     
“This is the guy”:
H. Rosenman to the author, November 30, 2012.

73
     
“Egon had an aristocratic” and following:
John Richardson to the author, February 21, 2014.

76
     
“an important part”:
Allan Tannenbaum,
New York in the 70s
(New York: Overlook, 2009), p. 5.

77
     
“I didn’t have to”:
Mimmo Ferretti to the author, September 12, 2011.

77
     
“All right to be stylish”:
Bob Colacello,
Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up
(New York: HarperPerennial, 1992), p. 6.

78
     
“brilliant invention”:
John Richardson to the author, February 21, 2014.

78
     
“style, charm, charisma,”
Stephanie Rosenbloom, “Tightening Belts? She’s the Expert,”
New York Times,
July 18, 2009.

78
     
“I did make it all up”:
DVF to the author, July 31, 2014.

78
     
“I remember when”:
Fran Boyar to the author, June 10, 2011.

78
     
“It’s all about”:
Stefani Greenfield to the author, January 21, 2014.

79
     
“perhaps disappointed”:
“Crop Top,”
WWD
, February 10, 1972.

79
     
“I think she was going to
”: “Today’s Young Couple,”
Newsweek,
January 1973.

79
     
“Nothing makes a woman”:
Von Furstenberg,
Book of Beauty,
p. 14.

80
     
“They thought I was”:
Judy Klemesrud, “Those Simple Little Dresses Seen Up and Down the Avenue,”
New York Times,
November 7, 1974.

80
     
“I liked Diane’s clothes”:
John Pomerantz to the author, August 25, 2010.