Bardot's Vichy Ballerines, watercolor, 9" x 11"Today being Fashion Night Out 2011...
It's a perfect opp to tell you about Vicky Tiel's It's All About The Dress!
If you're a little bit mad about fashion/Paris/celebs you can't go wrong.
Vicky Tiel and I both went to Parsons School of Design. Miss Keagy, head of the fashion dept., kindly suggested I become a librarian.
I replied, "It's either the river or 7th Avenue!"
Vicky was also dissuaded from a fashion career for different reasons - her designs were super short, super sheer and very naughty. Vicky went off to Paris with fellow classmate Mia Fonssagrives and they shook that town up, whilst I went off to 7th Ave...wish I'd followed suit...
The overnight success of Vicky and Mia made them international fashion celebrities...
And they got to dress super hot celebrities in their first movie, "What's New Pussycat" and many others...
Francoise Hardy, Ursula Andress, Paula Prentice, Woody Allen, Peter Sellers etc. YIKES! Vicky's book is full of fun vignettes of all their Parisien adventures....
On top of it Mia got involved and married Louis Feraud (they did do designs for his show and modeled them on the runway to boot) who had designed Bridget Bardot's famous 'Vichy' pink checked wedding dress among other glories (gotta read the book to find out more).
Did I mention Vicky's book is full of sketches like this Paris map near her shop on 21, rue Bonaparte...
Isn't it funny that I doodled one house down from her shop..?
Vicky's building formerly was the grand residence and shop of superb interior designer, Madame Madeleine Castaing...
Did I mention Vicky got involved and married Ron Berkeley, Liz Taylor's personal makeup artist, so Liz and Vicky became bosom buddies for N-teen years and Vicky designed Liz' famous caftan bla ba bla...
Vicky's book is loaded with all kinds of 'rules' from everyone who was anyone plus their recipes (none for the dreaded macaron thank gawd). Plus lots of dirt on everyone in Paris and Hollywood and and and.
Oh just READ IT!
BONJOUR VICKI!Disclosure: Vicky sent me her book..
It's a perfect opp to tell you about Vicky Tiel's It's All About The Dress! 
If you're a little bit mad about fashion/Paris/celebs you can't go wrong. 
Vicky Tiel and I both went to Parsons School of Design. Miss Keagy, head of the fashion dept., kindly suggested I become a librarian. I replied, "It's either the river or 7th Avenue!"
Vicky was also dissuaded from a fashion career for different reasons - her designs were super short, super sheer and very naughty. Vicky went off to Paris with fellow classmate Mia Fonssagrives and they shook that town up, whilst I went off to 7th Ave...wish I'd followed suit...
The overnight success of Vicky and Mia made them international fashion celebrities... 
And they got to dress super hot celebrities in their first movie, "What's New Pussycat" and many others... 
Francoise Hardy, Ursula Andress, Paula Prentice, Woody Allen, Peter Sellers etc. YIKES! Vicky's book is full of fun vignettes of all their Parisien adventures.... 
On top of it Mia got involved and married Louis Feraud (they did do designs for his show and modeled them on the runway to boot) who had designed Bridget Bardot's famous 'Vichy' pink checked wedding dress among other glories (gotta read the book to find out more). 
Did I mention Vicky's book is full of sketches like this Paris map near her shop on 21, rue Bonaparte...
Isn't it funny that I doodled one house down from her shop..?
Vicky's building formerly was the grand residence and shop of superb interior designer, Madame Madeleine Castaing...
Did I mention Vicky got involved and married Ron Berkeley, Liz Taylor's personal makeup artist, so Liz and Vicky became bosom buddies for N-teen years and Vicky designed Liz' famous caftan bla ba bla...
Vicky's book is loaded with all kinds of 'rules' from everyone who was anyone plus their recipes (none for the dreaded macaron thank gawd). Plus lots of dirt on everyone in Paris and Hollywood and and and.
Oh just READ IT!
BONJOUR VICKI!Disclosure: Vicky sent me her book..