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The Coup: Gioia Diliberto Spotlight
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This spotlight event features a conversation mid author weather journalist Gioia Diliberto impressive SCAD alumna student, Anne Royan. Gioia and Anne discuss interpretation creative approach, which inspirational quote ditch hangs tower over the author’s desk, presentday the characterless to capture writer’s argue – previously and daily all.
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The Collection
Discussion Questions
1. "I wasn't prepared to enter a world that operated on a hierarchy as rigid as the Catholic Church. If Mademoiselle was the pope, the vendeuses were the cardinals; the premières and secondes, the bishops; the mains, the priests; the arpètes, the acolytes" (page 27). Discuss the importance of hierarchy, both to the House of Chanel and to the plot of the novel.
2. Do you think Isabelle belonged in the world of haute couture or do you think she was too provincial for such a cutthroat industry? What similarities did her life have to that of Chanel?
3. "What had started out as a symbol of grief was evolving into the postwar standard of elegance" (page 38). What else does black symbolize in The Collection? Where are there great splashes of color in this novel?
4. Why do you think "seamstresses are obsessed with marriage" (page 68)? How did Isabelle reflect or reject this stereotype? Did the characters of Jacques and Daniel help to influence or limit Isabelle's independence?
5. What single item of her mother's did Isabelle possess? How was it significant to Isabelle's craft and success?
6. "Often, when I sewed, I would slip into a meditative state, almost as if I'd become one with the fabric and thread. At these times, I felt a kind o
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Diane von Furstenberg: A Life Unwrapped
A modern fable of self invention, fame, failure, and success, pulled together with the style and assuredness of a DVF dress.
A sweeping biography of one of the most influential and controversial legends of New York fashion – the iconic designer whose creations captured the modern feminist spirit.
In 1969 when women’s liberation and equal rights were on everyone’s lips, twenty-two-year-old Diane von Furstenberg set out to have a career of her own. The daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Diane grew up a frizzy-haired, gap-toothed outsider in Brussels. Improbably, she became the first wife of Austrian nobleman Egon von Furstenberg, moved to New York City, and quickly made herself a fixture of an outrageous fashion scene. Pregnant and lugging a suitcase of samples to department stores, Diane started a dress business with three styles – and in 1973 burst onto the national stage with the invention of the wrap dress.
Embraced for its flattering style by millions of American women of all ages, sizes, and shapes, the dress became a cult object, tied inexorably to the image Diane projected of youth independence, and sex – the “DVF woman,” a mode