It's All About the Dress What I Learned in Forty Years About Men, Women, Sex, and Fashion

by Tiel, Vicky

• ISBN13: 9781250009043
• ISBN10: 1250009049
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-07
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Summary

Vicky Tiel, a 1960s "it" girl, began her four decade career designing clothes as a student at New York's Parsons School of Design, shocking peers and professors in her transparent tops and barely-there miniskirts. In Paris, Tiel rose to fashion stardom, known as much for her tabloid-worthy escapades as for her scandalous designs. Her boutique, on the ever-fashionable Rue Bonaparte, drew chic and famous women. Tiel's life was over-the-top dance-the-night-away fun, in It's All About the Dress, she bares all including: - How Vicky and best friend Elizabeth Taylor stole a sneak peek at Richard Burton's gift for Taylor and almost lost the priceless La Peregrina pearl for good. - Warren Beatty's secret with women (it's not what you think) - Why modern stars like Halle Berry and Kim Kardashian love Vicky's dresses - Seduction secrets of greats from Ursula Andress ("Wear animal prints and show your nipples.") to Kim Novak ("Find a color that represents you and stick to it.") - Why "no sex for shoes" was the smartest thing Vicky's father ever taught her

Author Biography

VICKY TIEL began designing clothes forty years ago and is the longest surviving female designer in Paris.  Her signature dresses - designed to make women look and feel great with their curves - have been sold exclusively in Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus for the past thirty years and worn by everyone from Elizabeth Taylor to Goldie Hawn, Halle Berry and Kim Kardashian.   Tiel writes about style and culture for The Huffington Post.  She divides her time between Paris, New York and a Florida farm where she live with her husband.

Table of Contents

"A naughty girl when that was the best a girl could be, inventor of the mini, Paris couturier at 18, Vicky Tiel tells spicy tales from dressing Kim, Ursula and Miles Davis, teasing Woody Allen, staying up late with Princess Grace and more intimate tales than you thought you'd want to know from her years in the entourage of Liz and Dick.  Comes complete with tricks you need: bedroom advice, supermodels' diet guide, how to get men to give jewelry and the recipe for a perfect pink tunafish sandwich."

--Gael Greene, author of Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess.

 

"A delicious romp...her memoir reads like all of the juiciest bits of your favorite gossip magazine, pushing back the curtains of an over-the-top life among the who's who of the '60s-'80s."

--Kirkus Review

 

"Not even the most resolutely stern reader will be able to resist this feast of Hollywood gossip, fashion advice, and racy recollection by the noted designer Vicky Tiel, who knew Marilyn and Marlon, was the inventor of notable trends like miniskirts and jumpsuits, and is a natural and funny writer who tells all. Delicious!"--Diane Johnson, author of Le Divorce