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It's All About the Dress: What I Learned in Forty Years About Men, Women, Sex, and Fashion Hardcover – August 16, 2011

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  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press (August 16, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312659091
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312659097
  • Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 1.2 x 8.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsMy mouth was hanging open during much of this book.
By dpm on August 18, 2011
Format: Hardcover
Buy it, just buy it. This book is indescribable, but I will try. This is an amazing woman, who at a very young age, went to fashion school in NY (with equivocal marks, which did not deter her one bit), then off to Paris to turn the fashion world upside down all at the age of 20. The people she met along the way, and the casual yet detailed way she describes their amazing successes, made me realize my mouth was literally hanging open with shock while I read, which I never remember happening before. Read it in two days, couldn't put it down. It is truly a guilty pleasure, yet there is something deeper here as well. To read about an individual so confident, not only in her own ability but in the joy she takes in other people's success, and her complete indifference to convention, was so refreshing and also inspiring. Possibly one of the best books of the year.
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5.0 out of 5 starsit's all about the dress
By Anthony Rago on August 23, 2011
Format: Hardcover
I loved the book! Not normally a celebrity stalker, I couldn't stop reading this unbridled unabashed UNINHIBITED account of Vicky's remarkable life and circumstances! She shares the most intimate revealing stories of her relationships with remarkable men and women in a fun and refreshingly sweet style.I was sorry when I got to the last page!
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1.0 out of 5 starsIt's All About the Boobs
By D.J. Stroud on December 1, 2012
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"Lesson: Learn what men like and be good at it." Paying lip service to female empowerment, Vicky Tiel proceeds to girltalk about her life as a perpetual third-string mistress and fawning celebrity camp-follower. Proper female pride is a foreign concept to this woman. Exhibit A: Her first married lover takes her to his room which is dominated by a large portrait of his nude wife over the bed. Underneath is a chart of women's names with strings of multi-colored stick-on stars. His conquests are rated in categories of oral sex, show of enthusiasm, classic sex, kissing, and beauty: "Red stars were tops. I was determined to have five red stars in every category." He's surprised that she's not offended: "No," I told him. "I want to know what men want." Exhibit B: Tiel consents to a "Vicky Contest"-dating rivals Woody Allen and Clive Donner must compete to see who can give Tiel the most creative gift. The winner gets to sleep with her. She's careful to point out that she was sure both were truly interested in a long-term relationship, not just a one-night-stand (neither won, by the way. She was busy hooking up with married man #2). This book is full of such idiocies. Her adventures with the Beautiful People seem as outwardly glitzy and inwardly impoverished as an episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and her diva complaints became tiresome. When an air hostess bumped her from first-class to coach because of her ratty jeans, she predictably throws a fit: "Didn't the hostess realize the antitravel look was for those who really travel?Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsDelusional, yet entertaining
By Andrea B. Grace on January 25, 2012
Format: Hardcover
I give this book 5 stars for the celebrity gossip, and one star for the completely self centered ramblings of the author. I went along with her "Forrest Gump" tendency to place herself at the center of whatever important event was occurring during the 1960s (suprised she didnt take credit for Woodstock), but she lost my interest when she became a "mother". I have never seen anyone less self aware and caring as a parent. And her reveal of what Richard Burton's last letter to Elizabeth Taylor said (something Taylor herself had said she wished to keep private) was the final straw. I love celeb gossip as much as the next person, but this was really low and disloyal. A fame whore on par with a Kardashian.
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5.0 out of 5 starsWonderful reading
By Bonnie on September 4, 2011
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Vicky goes into detail about her life and the fashions in the sixties; anyone interested in this time frame would enjoy reading her book. It keeps the reader mesmerized.
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5.0 out of 5 starsLife in the fast lane!
By Sam Moses on September 25, 2011
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Love the honesty, humor and intelligence of this book. What a life! We girls of that generation always wanted to know more. More than the gossip columnists told us and more than we could imagine. Vicky has given us a real picture of life with the rich and famous.
Loved, loved, loved the little tidbits of advice that hold so much depth and the recipes that I am sure I will use in the not too distant future! Don't know if I want to put it with my best cookbooks or leave it around my bedside for future reference!
Couldn't put it down! Enjoy!
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3.0 out of 5 starsFun read but shallow
By MMdesigner on October 15, 2011
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I did enjoy this book. I just wonder if it is 100 percent truthful or if Ms. Tiel took a queue from Diana Vreeland's "autobiography" which is pretty much fiction. Tiel gratuitously name drops; and she and her husband, Ron, get a free ride from some of her famous/wealthy friends, which paint a superficial portrait of the couple. I found it amusing that her husband doesn't just cook a quick pasta with garlic and olive oil dish. No, he makes "Sophia Loren's pasta."

Having said all that, I really enjoyed it. I felt like I knew the author by the end of the book, and she's very likable. Fiction or non-fiction, it's quite entertaining. PS. If the stories are totally true, my apologies to the author.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Loved this book! So fun! Boy she has had quite the life.

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FUN READ DELIVERED ON A TIMELY BASIS

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interesting read and funny stories of what goes on in the crazy world of fashion. Go Vicky!

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I love this book. It's very entertaining! And of great fashion historical interest too!

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Published 15 months ago by Debra Davis
5.0 out of 5 starsCould not wait to read each chapter of love, fun

I could not put this book down. Could not wait to read each chapter of love, fun, and Vicky's points of view on so many subjects. She is a wonderful designer and woman. Read more

Published 15 months ago by Dana Bilyeu
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I enjoyed this book very much. Vicky Tiel pulls no punches in writing about her life as a wife, mother, fashion designer and perfumer. I enjoyed her writing very much. Read more

Published 17 months ago by Linda Jacobs Atamian
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Very good book a quick read.

I enjoyed the flow of the book, very descriptive writing I could see everything so clearly. I can only imagine what it was like to actual live all the experiences that were... Read more

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