Status Updates From The Chiffon Trenches

I’m obsessed!!!!

Loooving this!!!

tom ford on the best dressed list obv

carolina herrera gets the Lifetime Achievement award from him. "When she dressed in Paris, at the couture, she had a cardinal rule: 'I always selected the dress I knew no one else would think of buying.' For nearly five decades, she has been the most elegant lady in New York. Karl Lagerfeld said so and I agree"

need a physical copy of this one mostly for the best dressed list and to research each of these best dressed ppl

LOLLLL including anna wintour on the best dressed list but caveating "only when she is dressed in Chanel Haute Couture"

"The main requirements for my [best dressed] list are: sartorial uniqueness, consistent style, personal achievement, and a high moral code, which leads to high standards in dress"

love that the final chapter is a best dressed list

legitimately very endearing yet devastating end to this book "The world can't hurt me. No one can hurt me when I live in a circle of faith, love, and prayer. It gives me unbridled joy to give love. I always wanted love."

"...Real life for so long has been one of selected darkness, but the sun eventually shines. I dreamed of the life I have lived, and I survived with dignity and grace... I think it is a true wonder that I have come this far. I have always feared life. I love living, and I love looking to the endless skies."

"My faith and my church life are paramount to my wellness. In Victor Hugo's novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Quasimodo the bell keeper shouts out 'Sanctuary, sanctuary!' That resonates in my life, as I have always, to the very moment I pen this, been afraid of real life...

"I thank God for my grandmother's silent love and for Diana Vreeland's exuberant outbursts of love and affection. When I am overwhelmed with feelings of emptiness and deep sadness, when the day begins and ebbs into dark blues, I have life-enhancing stratagems to make the day a better one. I begin each day in prayers for my friends and loved ones"

"Recently I realized that in my seventies, my greatest joy is to wake up, say my prayers, and be kind. I try to be kind to everyone I encounter. Sometimes, I miss the beat"

"I lived for the golden age of fashion journalism. Vogue gave me a great life and a great memory of riches. I saw the best in people along with the worst, when they feel you are no longer of value. There are bittersweet moments, but I always gave back to Vogue whatever they wanted"

"Conde Nast is special in its ability to spit people out. From the highest to the low, you are dismissed without ceremony and without dignity... When Diana Vreeland was fired, they changed the locks and painted her famous red walls beige... Grace Mirabella learned she was fired when it was announced on television... When you're there, you're gloried... and then... you're just thrown out the door like trash"

vogue changing, losses "Big stars no longer have to depend on magazines to present themselves to the world"

"Go to school, get your degree, and follow your inner core. Make no apology for who you are. Personal style is outstanding when it is backed up by knowledge and confidence. Be confident, be bold, and use your voice to express that personal style."

Camp Met Gala: "Anna's dress had nothing at all to do with camp, it was elegant and expressed the highest standards of Chanel technique and refinement, as designed by Karl. The last of his mind's creations Anna will ever own. She also chose a Chanel pink feathered cape, which I was not a fan of to begin with... Anna does not have the deportment to make an elegant cape move with [some french word idk]"

"Lee [Radziwell] was the elegant miracle in my life"

Lee Radziwell one his best friends, lots of funny things about her relationship to Jackie Kennedy (her sister)

"The Empress Wintour, in her power, has disappointed me in her humanity. Our friendship has layered with thick rust over the years... my hope is that she will find a way to apologize before I die... or... show up at my bedside with an extended hand clasped into mine and say 'I love you, you have no idea how much you have meant to me'. Not a day goes by when I do not think of Anna Wintour" tearing up so that's cool

finding out he was kicked off the met interviews starting with camp year from a rando "This was clearly a stone cold business decision. I had suddenly become too old, too overweight, and too uncool, I imagined, for Anna Wintour. After decades of loyalty and friendship and going through the peaks and valleys of the chiffon trenches together, Anna should have had the decency and kindness to call me or send me an email"