Diane von Furstenberg (41 page)
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Authors: Gioia Diliberto
114
“It was exciting”:
Jaine O’Neil to the author, April 17, 2011.
114
“I am very drunk”:
DVF to Marion Stein, May 12, no year, private collection.
114
“He was always around”:
Linda Bird Francke to the author, September 17, 2014.
115
“Diane’s style wasn’t” and following:
Bob Colacello to the author, December 6, 2011.
115
“This is really sick”:
Steven Gaines,
Simply Halston
(New York: Jove, 1993), p. 112.
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“By the way” and following:
Diane von Furstenberg interview by Victor Hugo,
Interview,
January 1975.
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“our bodies”:
DVF to the author, August 31, 2013.
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“I was having”:
Ibid., 2014.
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“I got him”:
Fran Boyar to the author, June 10, 2011.
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“On the one hand” and following:
Jas Gawronski to the author, June 11, 2013.
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“a typical Upper East Side” and following:
AVF to the author, June 17, 2012.
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“called me her oxygen”: and following:
TVF to the author, June 15, 2013.
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“she wouldn’t let me”
and following: Olivier Gelbsman to the author, February 11, 2013.
120
“quietly in the audience” and following:
Bernadine Morris, “On Seventh Avenue, the Shows Gather Momentum,”
New York Times,
April 29, 1974.
120
“Egon would come”:
Richard Conrad to the author, February 9, 2013.
121
“If I loan it”:
Ibid., June 9, 2010.
A DVF World
124
“There’s always an echo”:
Stefani Greenfield to the author, January 21, 2014.
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“People were offering”:
DVF to the author, October 3, 2014.
125
“Why do you need”:
Diane von Furstenberg,
Diane: A Signature Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), p. 103.
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“the ranks of women”:
Ibid., p. 108.
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“I thought” and following:
Gigi Williams to the author, May 14, 2011.
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“We never should” and following:
Richard Conrad to the author, February 9, 2013.
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“We did very well”:
Ibid., June 9, 2010.
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“Diane can’t tolerate”:
Linda Bird Francke to the author, September 17, 2014.
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“Women would book”:
Williams to author, May 14, 2011.
The Adventuress
131
“Do I think”:
DVF to the author, October 3, 2014.
132
“she was fairly” and following:
Barry Diller to the author, July 15, 2013
132
“It was very much like”:
David Rensin,
The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up
(New York: Ballantine Books, 2007), ebook location 1811.
133
“no one had known”:
Diane von Furstenberg,
The Woman I Wanted to Be
(New York, Simon & Schuster, 2014), p. 72.
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“but I didn’t sleep”:
Diane von Furstenberg,
Diane: A Signature Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), p. 115.
134
“We spent about a week” and following:
Barry Diller to the author, July 15, 2013.
135
“very much in love”:
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 115.
135
“I guess the reason”:
Andy Warhol,
The Andy Warhol Diaries
, edited by Pat Hackett (New York: Grand Central, 1991), p. 192.
135
“I don’t understand”:
DVF to Andrew Goldman, “How Diane von Furstenberg Is Like a Cowboy,”
New York Times,
June 28, 2013.
136
“Go show” and following:
Jerry Bowles, “Diane von Furstenberg—At the Top,”
Vogue,
July 1976, p. 141–42.
136
“He was always”:
AVF to the author, June 17, 2013.
136
“I slept with other people,”
DVF to the author, July 31, 2014.
136
“I don’t ask” and following:
DVF to the author, August 1, 2014.
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“It hasn’t been valuable”:
TVF to the author, June 15, 2013.
138
“I’m here because”:
Nancy Collins, “Brown Comes to Town,”
WWD
, May 11, 1976.
138
“was the first governor”:
Barbara Rowes, “Women Buy, but Men Dominate the Fashion World: Then Along Came Diane von Furstenberg,”
People,
May 21, 1979.
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“was so irresistible”:
DVF to the author, August 31, 2013.
138
“he’d gotten”:
Warhol,
Warhol Diaries,
p. 244.
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“Yeah, briefly”:
DVF to the author, August 31, 2013.
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“I loved the feeling”:
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 157.
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“It was all for the boys”:
anonymous to the author, July 11, 2011.
140
“The hours between”:
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 155.
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“The whole apartment”:
Bob Colacello to the author, December 6, 2011.
141
“way in the back” and following:
André Leon Talley to the author. December
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“I was playing the games”:
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 159.
142
“are better than men”:
“Verbatim,”
Time,
February 16, 2004.
142
“Have I slept with women”:
DVF to the author, September 12, 2014.
143
“huge advance”:
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 120.
143
“Well, what do you” and following:
von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 122.
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“I am not a snob”:
HFT, June 1980, p. 49.
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“like Sheena”:
Julie Baumgold, “Under the Volcano with Diane von Furstenberg,”
New York
, May 1981.
144
“Sits at the bathmat”:
Baumgold, “Under the Volcano.”
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“This morning” and following:
Diane von Furstenberg interview by Bob Colacello,
Interview,
March 1977.
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“Diane understands”:
Michael Gross, “The Education of Diane von Furstenberg,”
Manhattan, Inc.,
February 1985.
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“What’s a pretty girl”
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 109.
145
“That [wrap] dress” and following:
Edward Kosner to the author, July 2011.
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“I was so busy”:
DVF to the author, October 2, 2014
146
“For someone who” and following: Newsweek
, March 22, 1976.
146
“I gave up the princess”:
DVF to the author, August 1, 2014.
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“I haven’t worn”:
Gloria Steinem to the author, September 27, 2013.
147
“you have to look”:
transcript of DVF interview by Chrystia Freeland and Vanessa Friedman, published in the
Financial Times,
February 7, 2007.
147
“Before feminism”:
Gloria Steinem to the author, September 27, 2013.
147
“a tomboy who suffers”:
Sally Beauman, “So Who’s Liberated?”
Vogue,
September 1, 1970.
148
“We rarely covered”:
Letty Pogrebin in emails to the author, February 18 and 19, 2013.
148
“We regarded ourselves”:
Gloria Steinem to the author, September 27, 2013.
148
“in the early days”:
Joanne Edgar in an email to the author, February 19, 2013.
149
“Too bad, I got there”:
Luis Estevez to the author, May 17, 2011.
149
“If I had to be beaten” and following:
Von Furstenberg,
Diane,
p. 112.
Requiem for a Dress
152
VON FURSTENBERG LINE and following:
“Von Furstenberg Line Marked Down by Six N.Y. Stores,”
WWD
, June 21, 1977.
153
“The handwriting”:
Richard Conrad to the author, October 8, 2014.
153
“I was traveling around”:
DVF to the author, August 2, 2014.