"Un-put-downable." - Wall Street Journal "A fresh look at DVF's life.as powerfully seductive as the designer's iconic wrap dress." - DuJour "Fascinating." - New York Times Sunday Book Review "Absorbing . an all-access pass into the life of this enterprising artist [and] a lively portrait of a bold and determined woman as colorful and alluring as her fashions." - Chicago Tribune "A compelling portrait." - Atlanta Journal-Constitution One of BUSTLE's "11 Women In Nonfiction Who Are Totally Killing It" "Diliberto captures Diane's determination in the early days to build a fashion brand and her great success striking the exact right note at the right moment with the creation of her modern wrap dress.
" - Providence Journal "Diliberto's biography of a determined yet often self-destructive woman adds to the legacy this force for fashion and female autonomy has bequeathed to the world." - Booklist "Unwrap and enjoy." - Library Journal "Fast and engrossing.a fun and insightful read about both the woman and the larger fashion universe." - Chicago Business Journal "The book [is] a winner. A roller coaster life, full of love and work, told as a juicy tale." - Library Journal "Fascinating . examines the designer's rise to stardom from her postwar, European childhood to the personal scandals of her adulthood through a feminist lens.
" - Bustle "Thoroughly reported . rich with delicious details . a timely tale of a woman who knows what other women want: Everything." - USA Today "A complex and often incredibly fun portrait . Diliberto deftly highlights the heady social whirl of Paris . [A] handsomely imagined story." - Los Angeles Times on I Am Madame X "Postwar Paris and the ruthlessly competitive atelier of Coco Chanel come to glamorously gritty life." - Vogue on The Collection "Explores the pulse and impulses of the designer.
" - Daily Mail (London) "In the rarefied world of capital-F Fashion, there are . designers . who have changed the way women have come to think about the image they present to the world via the clothes they wear. Few epitomize this clothing-as-self mantra as fully as Diane von Furstenberg . In a thorough and balanced look at von Furstenberg's life, Diliberto not only probes the pain caused by her roller-coaster professional and personal mishaps but tallies the triumphs that came through sheer perseverance and an unwavering belief in her abilities and vision . Diliberto's biography of a determined yet often self-destructive woman adds to the legacy this force for fashion and female autonomy has bequeathed to the world." - Booklist "A fresh and incisive look at the first--and most intriguing--of [Hemingway's] four wives." - The Boston Globe on Paris Without End "Diliberto's prose .
sings . leaves the reader with a vivid sense of the beauty in question, in both the painter's version, and the lady's herself." - San Francisco Chronicle on I Am Madame X "A bittersweet modern love story [that] reads as easily as a novel . their intimacy and candour was the raw material for Hemingway's great early short stories which achieved a powerful new realism about he relations between men and women." - Vogue on Paris Without End "Fascinating.A detailed, grittier portrait of the woman Hemingway loved and left." - Newsday on Paris without End.