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 [...]

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Elizabeth Taylor’s infamously outrageous jewelry collection is up for sale on December 13th at Christie’s in New York and I’m wondering what new queen will end up with her wandering (the translation of the word Le Peregrina) pearl. The pearl, favored by queens, even by the Queen of Hollywood, was discovered in Panama by an [...]

Your show had amazing results and we sold 185 books last night,and all the grand belles of Houston turned out! Thank you again for the plug,my new career as a writer is off to a brilliant start.xxxVicky Tiel

Susan Bloomberg’s Book Party for “Its  all about the Dress”, was to be held in  her rooftop penthouse. Sue was leaving shortly afterwards to move to a new building rooftop  at the end of the month. It was Wednesday night and rain was predicted, dark clouds lined the skyline of downtown Manhattan, as I started [...]