“The world is divided into two groups, Artists and everybody else”, I told my friends in the early sixties, and sometimes my non artists friends got so angry at me and my elitist statement they wanted to hit me on the head. I could see it in their eyes. Times have changed. Today the [...]

Today with the Internet, everything is known. If Paris has a new coral jean, it is already available in Bloomingdales, already worn by the fashion buyers on the streets of New York. In the following weeks, it will be available in Target; even in the children’s department, there will be coral jeans. There is now [...]

I woke up today to this fabulous Paris Fashion Week street style recap in my inbox from Vicky Tiel, designer extraordinaire (she designed the red gown Julia Roberts wore to the opera in Pretty Woman!!), author of It’s All About the Dress: What I Learned in 40 Years About Men, Women, Sex and Fashion, and [...]

Whitney will be missed, the Whitney we loved so deeply had already gone…her voice had already left the building, years before the beautiful body had followed. My husband, Mike woke me up at night to tell me the tragic news. The last time he woke me up was for the sudden death Princess Diana. My [...]

She sang these previously unrecorded songs…”Around the World in Eighty Days” and “The Shadow of your Smile”, accompanied only by an older, long-haired man with a guitar. I had been invited to join a very exclusive dinner party in mid-December during the week of the auction of Elizabeth Taylor’s personal effects at Christie’s New York, [...]

Own Your Own Business! Better yet, if you can, do not involve your father or mother, best friend, and especially never your husband… as he can threaten you, fire you and even replace you with another woman. The Art of Happiness is the Art of Independence, only be responsible to yourself. There are two types [...]

  Elizabeth Taylor’s New Year’s Eve at Home, during our “fun years” in the sixties, consisted of family, fashion, and food. Family consisted of her four kids, Michael, Chris, Liza and Maria; a few of Richard Burton’s Welsh Jenkins brothers and their wives; his daughter Kate; the dogs, Richard’s orange Peekenese, En’so, and her white [...]

  When I needed to find a new husband, I put on a RED dress, a red leather strapless mummy dress. “Red is the color to wear to get men,” I’ve been telling my customers for almost forty years. The  power of Red was first revealed to me by Fred Hayman, who owned Georgio’s of [...]

The Mini Wars or the debate over WHO invented the miniskirt and the wrap dress is heating up again. Who did what and when did they do it, has come to the attention of the fashionistas in my new book, It’s all about the Dress as I describe Mia-Vicky’s beginnings in the early sixties. I [...]

Here is my recent interview on NBC in Washington, DC View more videos at: http://nbcwashington.com.