Willy Christy, Serene Cicora, Geraldine Frank Clark, Dennie Cody, Carol Conover, Harry Conover, Jr., Monique Corey, Bernie Cornfeld, Francine Counihan Okie, Stewart Cowley Cindy Crawford, Mary Webb Davis, Kim Dawson, Jean-Marie de Gueldre, Inès de la Fressange, Jacques de Nointel, Barbara deWolf, Gerald Dearing, Dan Deely, Carmen Dell’Orefice, Patrick Demarchelier, Micki Denhoff, Louise Despointes, Cathy di Montezemolo, Richard di Pietro, Martine Diacenco, Debbie Dickinson, Janice Dickinson, Lorraine Dillon, Clay Deering Dilworth, Guido Dolce, Terence Donovan, Betty McLauchlen Dorso, Sarah Doukas, April Ducksbury, Giuliana Ducret, Mary Duffy, Diana Edkins at the Condé Nast Archive, Bernadette Marciano Ellinger, Dieter and Natasha Esch, Jinx Falkenburg, Ed Feldman, Fabrizio Ferri, Bob Fertig, Christa Fiedler, Michael Flutie, José Fonseca, Fernand Fonssagrives, Susan Forristal, Juli Foster, Jeremy Foster-Fell, Judith Foster-Fell, Bob Frame, Dottie Franco, Edward Gainsley, Marcella Galdi, Colette Gambier.
Marilyn Gaulthier, Diane Gérald, Marco Glaviano, Richard Golub, Jan Gonet, Wynne Gordine-Dalley, Sunny Griffin, Frances Grill, Brigitte Grosjean, Lisa Gubernick, Lucy Angle Guercio, Jean-François Guille, Sean Gunson, Claude Haddad, Anthony Haden-Guest, Paul Hagnauer, Maarit Halinen, Chad Hall, Jerry Hall (and her assistant, Jane Hayes), Jane Halleran, Shirley Hamilton, Celia Hammond, Beth Ann Hardison, Huntington Hartford, Juliet Hartford, Ellen Harth, Bonnie Haydon, Charles Haydon, Will Helburn, Guy Héron, Astrid Herrene, Steve Hiett, Jane Hitchcock, Horst P. Horst, Jane Hsiang, Marion Hume, Joe Hunter, Lauren Hutton (and her assistant, Dee Galucci), Pippa Imrie, Just Jaeckin, Stanley Juba, Leslie Kark, Faith Kates, Lizette Kattan, Harry King, Sally Kirkland, Alain Kittler, William Klein, Polly Ferguson Knaster, Bitten Knudsen, Paul Kopp, Lee Kraft, Ewing Krainin, Gene Krell, Karin Mossberg LaMotte, Judy Lane, Stéphane Lanson, Barbara Lantz, Roberto Lanzotti, Barry Lategan, Estée Lauder, Leonard Lauder, Guy Le Baube, Kim LeManton.
Michel Levaton, Angie Lewis, Alexander Liberman, Freddie Lieba, Gunilla Lindblad, Christine Lindgren, Jean Louis, Gene Loyd, Peter Hope Lumley, Gillis MacGil, Robert MacLeod, Francesca Magugliani, Jacques Malignon, Nikki Maniscalco, Gérald Marie, Irene Marie, Fabienne Martin, Jo Matthews, Mark McCormack, Tex McCrary, Eric McGrath, Bob McKeon, Peggy McKinley, Nando Miglio, Iris Minier, Grace Mirabella, Donna Mitchell, Kay Mitchell, Robbie Montgomery, Linda Morand, Barbara Mullen Morel, Daniel Moriarty, Gara Morse, Kate Moss, Jean-Jacques Naudet, Ruth Neumann Derujinsky, S. I. Newhouse, Jr., Bruce Oldfield, Livia Rendessy Oliver, Natálie Nickerson Paine, Sir Mark Palmer, Tom Palumbo, Dorothy Parker and Sebastien Sed, Norman Parkinson, Jean Patchett, Lorenzo Pedrini, Giuseppe and Patrizia Piazzi.
Hervé Picard, Betsy Pickering Kaiser, Monique Pillard, Aldo Pinto, Jan Kaplan Planit, Giorgio Poli, Michele Pommier, Paulina Porizkova, Jean-Michel Pradwilov, Vickie Pribble, Roger Prigent, Craig Pyes, Karen Radkai, Charles Rainey, Juan Ramos, Abel Rapp, Mike Reinhardt, Giorgio Repossi, Matthew Rich, Bob Richardson, Herb Ritts, Jeni Rose, David Rosenzweig, Isabella Rossellini, Fran Rothschild, Chris Royer, Edward and Mary Jane Russell, D. D. Ryan, Giorgio Sant’Ambrogio, Odile Sarron, Percy Savage, Francesco Scavullo, Jerry Schatzberg, Giuseppe della Schiava, Claudia Schiffer, Barbara Schlager, Mark Sconce, Chelita Secunda, Tara Shannon, Jacques Silberstein, Steven Silverberg, Babs Simpson, Victor Skrebneski, Sarah Slavin, Marion Smith.
Shelley Smith, Jerrold Smockler, Lynn Snowden, Evelyn Kuhn Sokolsky, Melvin Sokolsky, Mia Fonssagrives Solow, Franca Sozzani, Richard Stein, Norma Stephens, Bert Stern, Eleanor Stinson, Don Stogo, Dick and Barbara Thorbahn Stone, Peter Strongwater, Constance Stumin, Geraldine Stutz, Massimo Tabak, Richard Talmadge, Trudi Tapscott, Dick Tarlow, Lisa Taylor, Ingo Thouret, Alberta Tiburzi, Tichka, Cheryl Tiegs (and her assistant, Barbara Shapiro), Elizabeth Tilberis, Reeshe Tivnan, Beatrice Traissac, Sarah Trimble, Christy Turlington, Barbara Tyler, Apollonia van Ravenstein, Mary Anne van Sickle, Auro Varani, Rosie Vela, Vera “Veruschka” von Lehndoff, Edward von Saher, Ellen von Unwerth, Gaby Wagner, Paul Wagner, John Warren, Ben Washington, Veronica Webb, Bruce Weber, Bill Weinberg, John Weitz, Lenno Wells, Preston Westenburg, Anna Wintour, Marysia Woronieka, Dan Wynn, Jean-Pierre Zachariasen, and Rusty Zeddis.
Finally, thanks to my agent, Ellen Levine, and Ann Dubuisson and Diana Finch of her office; my fashion rabbi, Bernadine Morris; Fabien Baron, who designed a cover with both impact and grace; picture editor Philip Gefter; photographer’s agent Pamela Reed; Bill Tonelli of Esquire magazine, who helped wrestle the manuscript into shape; my assistant, Stephanie Frank; transcriber Jean Brown; researchers Emma Beal in London (and Miles Chapman, who found her), Cecile Bloc-Rodot in Paris (and Alexis DuClos), Chris Lynch in Milan (and Richard Buckley); and interns Dorian May, Tim Kitchen, Vanessa Richardson, and Allegra Abramo.
And for care, feeding, and otherwise tending to my needs, thanks to Jerry Simon Chasen, Kee and Lee Neidringhaus, Zoe Beresford, Peter Waldman, Thorn O’Dwyer, Jane Proctor, Gene Gutowski, and Lisa Eveleigh; Lyssa Horn, Claude Roland, Jim Haynes, Pamela Hanson and George Klarsfeld, Katell Le Bourhis, and Christy and J. P. Sadron; Fabrizio Ferri, Lisa Immordino, and Kim Clyde of Industria; Gerlinde and Eduardo Guelfenbein, Marpessa Hennink, Giorgio Guidotti, Giulio Viggi, Giorgio and Lavinia Cesana, Noona Smith-Peterson, Gabriella Forte, Romeo Gigli, Grazia d’Annunzio, Nando Miglio, Tom Ford and Karla Otto; Andre Balazs, Janis Kaye French, Peter Herbst, Eric Pooley, Mary Michele Rutherfurd, Christine Biddie and Michael Millius, Holly Solomon, Margery Goldberg, Maury Rogoff, Scott Manning, Ted Savaglio, and Susan Wiggins.
About the Author
MICHAEL GROSS is the author of Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles; Rogues’ Gallery: The Secret History of the Money and the Moguls That Made the Metropolitan Museum; and 740 Park: The Story of the World’s Richest Apartment Building. He is a contributing editor to Travel + Leisure and a columnist for Crain’s New York Business and has written for publications around the world, including Vanity Fair, New York, Esquire, GQ, and the New York Times. He lives in New York City.
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MODEL
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—New York Times Book Review
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—New York Daily News
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—Cosmopolitan
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—International Herald Tribune
“A relentless evisceration of an industry normally swathed in more shadows and light than Cindy Crawford.”
—Entertainment Weekly
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—Newsweek
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—People
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—Spin
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Other books by Michael Gross
Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles
Rogues’ Gallery: The Secret History of the Money and the Moguls That Made the Metropolitan Museum
740 Park: The Story of the World’s Richest Apartment Building
Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren
My Generation: Fifty Years of Sex, Drugs, Rock, Revolution, Glamour, Greed, Valor, Faith and Silicon Chips
Bob Dylan: An Illustrated History
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