I borrowed [perfume] from my sisters. One was very into flirty and sexy scents like Opium, and my older sister was all about Roger & Gallet and Fracas. Thanks to both of them, I had quite a fragrant range to keep me amused and well dressed in the olfactory department when stepping out to dance at any of a million great dancing factories.
— Isabel Toledo talks about the fragrances she wore throughout her life in The Life and Fragrances of Isabel Toledo: What She Wore for Studio 54, Diana Vreeland, and More, at Vogue. Her perfumes for Lane Bryant launch this month.
Mehhhhh…. For such a stylish, creative person, she is strangely two dimensional in words…and this business of perfume behind the ears versus on her chest…. I frequently get this same feeling of disappointment when I hear my favorite musicians interviewed… It it just not their milieu….
I enjoyed reading her “perfume biography” but agree it was not the most fascinating interview otherwise. But hard to tell if that’s her fault or Vogue’s fault, as I have not read many of her interviews.
Never heard of her. Didn’t read the interview. But, I assume that she is famous (I think that she dressed Michelle Obama?) so it’s cool that she is designing clothing for plus-sized figures. According to the Interwebs, she has perfume AND clothing at Lane Bryant.
She is famous, and she dressed Michelle Obama, and agree it’s cool!
She did a limited edition makeup line for MAC. The colors were gorgeous. I will probably go and smell her perfumes.
Worth a shot!