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Quite a fragrant range

Posted by Robin on 23 September 2015 6 Comments

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.

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  1. Oakland Fresca says:
    23 September 2015 at 11:26 am

    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….

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    • Robin says:
      23 September 2015 at 12:08 pm

      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.

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  2. kindcrow says:
    23 September 2015 at 4:52 pm

    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.

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    • Robin says:
      23 September 2015 at 5:16 pm

      She is famous, and she dressed Michelle Obama, and agree it’s cool!

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  3. lillyjo says:
    23 September 2015 at 5:31 pm

    She did a limited edition makeup line for MAC. The colors were gorgeous. I will probably go and smell her perfumes.

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    • Robin says:
      23 September 2015 at 8:08 pm

      Worth a shot!

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