It's All About The Dress: What I Learned In Forty Years About Men, Women, Sex, And Fashion (2000) - Plot & Excerpts
The title of this book should really be: It's All About Taking Off the Dress in Order to Have Sex with Movie Stars.Not sure why I picked up this book--I'm not into fashion--but I'm glad I did. Vicky Tiel is a fashion designer who started in the 1960s. She claims to have invented the mini skirt and hot pants; English designer Mary Quant says SHE did and Wikipedia says something else. Tiel DID create the red dress Julia Roberts wore in Pretty Woman.The book is really a tell-all about all the famous people Tiel's slept with while creating costumes for their movies. She slept with Warren Beatty. She was supposed to have sex with Woody Allen but she met her future husband and had sex with him instead. Was friends with Roman Polanski at the time Sharon Tate was murdered by the Manson family and claims Manson was promised a record deal by Terry Melcher (Doris Day's son), who welched on the deal. Manson sent his family to kill Melcher but sadly, Sharon Tate was renting the house at the time. (At least this is what Tiel's boyfriend Ron told her.) She met Elvis. She had a very long friendship with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Even though she never slept with Burton, she does tell all about all the sexual relationships HE had, before, during and after divorcing La Liz. See what I mean? Where's the dress? Anyway, if you love Old Hollywood gossip, read this book. While wearing something sexy, of course. I was close to giving this book 3 stars, but I gave it an extra 4th star, mainly because you have to admire Vicky Tiel's pluck. I found some of her life lessons to resonate with my own experience. I love her confidence and her acceptance of life, her joie de vivre. She is a big name dropper and gossiper, but that's part of the fun of reading this book! If you are interested in Liz Taylor, you definitely have to read this book. Liz created the "entourage", with the makeup artist, the clothing designer, the chef, the friends, the dogs. Vicky takes a lot of credit for being the first to do this or the one to inspire Martha Stewart to start her entertaining career. I am not sure if it is all true, and it does seem a little much. But, I did find myself looking forward to reading on and wondering what next would happen in the world of Vicky Tiel!
What do You think about It's All About The Dress: What I Learned In Forty Years About Men, Women, Sex, And Fashion (2000)?
So far, I am enjoying it. Paris, the 60s and high fashion!
—Sergejs
Fun, breezy read by a woman who's done and seen it all.
—aretela
A fun, frothy read from a true character
—Chandaprasai
