Eleven: One Night at Versailles

  1. Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, e-book.

  2. No author, “Louis XIV, We Are Here,” Newsweek, December 10, 1973.

  3. Fallon, 2011.

  4. Karan, 2011.

  5. Simone Levitt, New York telephone interview, 2014.

  6. Wyatt, 2013.

  7. Monique, “Fashion Kings Merge in a Surge of Elegance,” Chicago Tribune, December 1, 1973.

  8. Eugenia Sheppard, “Yanks Pull Off Fashion Heist in Paris,” Los Angeles Times, December 2, 1973.

  9. No author, “The Versailles Caper,” Women’s Wear Daily, November 29, 1973.

10. Karan, 2011.

11. Grumbach, 2012.

12. Shelton, 2011.

13. Jonathan C. Randal, “Let Them Eat Cake and Drink Chateau Lafite.”

14. Sheppard, “Yanks Pull Off Fashion Heist in Paris.”

15. Randal, “Let Them Eat Cake and Drink Chateau Lafite.”

16. Alessandra Codinha, “Ringside Seat: The ‘Battle of Versailles’ in WWD’s Eye,” Women’s Wear Daily, July 9, 2012.

17. Bergé, 2013.

18. Gunilla Lindblad, New York telephone interview, 2014.

19. Monique, “Fashion Kings Merge in a Surge of Elegance.”

20. Givenchy, 2013.

21. Enid Nemy, “Fashion at Versailles: French Were Good, Americans Were Great,” New York Times, November 30, 1973.

22. Sheppard, “Yanks Pull Off Fashion Heist in Paris.”

23. Fallon, 2011.

24. Bergé, 2013.

25. Grumbach, 2012.

26. Fallon, 2011.

27. Jackson, 2014

28. Nemy, 2013.

29. Nicole Fischelis, Paris interview at Le Printemps café, 2012.

30. Karan, 2011.

31. Tracy, 2013.

32. Nemy, 2013.

33. Blair, 2011.

34. De la Renta, 2011.

35. Fischelis, 2012.

36. Ibid.

37. Ibid.

38. Nemy, 2013.

39. Bergé, 2013.

40. De la Renta, 2011.

41. Phyllis Feldkamp, “Versailles Divertissement,” Christian Science Monitor, December 17, 1973.

42. Tiffany, Eleanor Lambert, p. 267.

43. Linda Gillan Griffin, “Time for U.S. Designers to Shine,” Houston Chronicle, November 4, 1993.

44. Fallon, 2011.

45. Burrows, 2011.

46. Karan, 2011.

47. Pearson, 2013.

48. Darden, 2013.

49. Burrows, 2011.

50. Nemy, 2013.

51. (Pat Shelton), “Elite Sip Champagne to Save Versailles Palace,” Los Angeles Times via United Press International, November 30, 1973.

52. Nemy, “Fashion at Versailles: French Were Good, Americans Were Great.”

53. Eugenia Sheppard, “Yanks Pull Off Fashion Heist in Paris.”

Twelve: Success Stories and Cautionary Tales

  1. Jackson, 2014.

  2. Givenchy, 2013.

  3. Givenchy, 2013.

  4. Robin Givhan, “The French Connection: Bernard Arnault Built a Fashion Empire. But Don’t Expect Any Air Kisses,” Washington Post, April 28, 2002.

  5. Givhan, “The French Connection.”

  6. Bernard Arnault, Paris interview in his office, 2011.

  7. Bergé, 2013.

  8. Hyde, “Pierre Cardin.”

  9. Teri Agins, The End of Fashion, p. 66.

10. Julia Reed, “Oscar de la Renta’s Next Big Act,” Wall Street Journal, Feburary, 23, 2012.

11. Bridget Foley, “Dressing Michelle: Major Designers Wait for First Lady’s Call,” Women’s Wear Daily, April 2, 2009.

12. Eric Wilson, “The Long Fall of the House of Blass,” New York Times, December 25, 2008.

13. Mary Rourke, “Made for the U.S.A.: Designer: Louis Dell’Olio, the Man Behind the Anne Klein Label, Specializes in Translating European Fashions into Classic American Styles,” Los Angeles Times, February 22, 1993.

14. Dell’Olio, 2013.

15. Karan, 2011.

16. Ibid.

17. Lisa Belkin column, New York Times Magazine, March 15, 1987.

18. Ibid.

19. Ibid.

20. Bernadine Morris, “Halston, Symbol of Fashion in America in 70’s, Dies at 57,” New York Times, March 28, 1990.

21. Rosemary Feitelberg, “Tom Ford on Family, Fashion and Film,” Women’s Wear Daily, May 9, 2012.

22. Burrows, 2011.

23. Jean Butler, “Burrows Is Back with a Little Help from His Friends.”

24. Burrows, 2013.

25. Ibid.

26. Ibid.

27. Burrows, 2011.

28. Robin Givhan, “Déjà Vu,” Washington Post, August 1, 2005.

29. Smaltz, 2013.

30. Burrows, 2013.

31. Report on the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, p. 7.

32. Phyllis Feldkamp, “‘Motion’ Clothes for Fall,” Christian Science Monitor, May 20, 1974.

33. Marion Clark and Nina S. Hyde, “Black Beauty: A Washington Model Shoots for the Top,” Washington Post, November 10, 1974.

34. Marian Christy, “Alva Chinn’s Journey.”

35. Blair, 2011.

36. David Yonke, “Model’s Pathway Led to Pulpit as Minister,” Toledo Blade, September 4, 2010.

37. Blair, 2011.

38. Ibid.

39. Robin Givhan, “Fashion Statement,” Washington Post, November 28, 2010.

40. Givhan, “Fashion Statement.”

41. Bethann Hardison, New York telephone interview, 2013.

42. Martin, “New High Fashion Trend Is to the Black Model.”

43. Robin Givhan, “White House Social Secretary Could Take a Page from the Fashion Industry,” Washington Post, April 25, 2010.

Epilogue: In Our Own Way

  1. De la Renta, 2011.

  2. Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute, Versailles 1973: American Fashion on the World Stage press release, August 10, 1993.

  3. Lee Spears and Elizabeth Wollman, “Luxury Beats Tech as Michael Kors Tops IPO Ranking,” Bloomberg Markets magazine, July 17, 2012.

  4. Grumbach, 2012.

  5. Ibid.

  6. Robin Givhan, “Kanye West’s Paris Flop,” The Daily Beast, October 2, 2011.

  7. Robin Givhan, “In Paris, Shredding the Fabric of Class: Fall Collections Revel in Unraveling Haute Couture,” Washington Post, March 8, 2003.

  8. Rick Owens, Paris interview backstage at his spring 2014 show, 2013.