Vicky Tiel

America is getting a little erotica just in time for the summer holidays with the smash success of E.L. James's Shades of Grey trilogy. This sexed-up series should liven up the boudoirs of American families burnt out from all the old fashioned 50s election talk about one man and one...

You know when you're traveling too much, when you are on the 6 a.m. plane and you wake up from a deep sleep and think "I've got to catch my plane."

I had been on another world wind book event in L.A. speaking onstage about Fame at the world famous...

"The world is divided into two groups -- artists and everybody else," I told my friends in the early '60s, and sometimes my non-artist friends got so angry at me and my elitist statement they wanted to hit me on the head. I could see it in their eyes.

Times...

My 'Hot Babe' makeover for my first TV appearance on HSN started with a cab ride to New York City from our family mountain cabin and the train ride down the Hudson River.

"Go slower," I screamed at the New York City cab driver as he roared past yellow buses....

It is a little known fact, but Paris Ready-to-Wear, as we know it today, was started in the late fifties by a beautiful brunette Balenciaga model named Emmanuelle Khanh. I recently had the pleasure to dine with Emmanuelle in Paris at her home, a double height artists studio in Montparnasse, and...

Today with the Internet, everything is known. If Paris has a new coral jean, it is already available in Bloomingdales, already worn by the fashion buyers on the streets of New York. In the following weeks, it will be available in Target; even in the children's department, there will be...

My husband, Mike woke me up at night to tell me the tragic news. The last time he woke me up was for the sudden death of Princess Diana. My world of glamourous celebrities is not of much interest to my earthy, fishing boat captain husband, however these two ladies...

She sang these previously unrecorded songs..."Around the World in Eighty Days" and "The Shadow of your Smile", accompanied only by an older, long-haired man with a guitar. I had been invited to join a very exclusive dinner party in mid-December during the week of the auction of Elizabeth Taylor's personal...

Own Your Own Business!

Better yet, if you can, do not involve your father or mother, best friend, and especially never your husband... as he can threaten you, fire you and even replace you with another woman. The Art of Happiness is the Art of Independence, only be responsible...

Elizabeth Taylor's New Year's Eve at Home, during our "fun years" in the sixties, consisted of family, fashion, and food.

Family consisted of her four kids, Michael, Chris, Liza and Maria; a few of Richard Burton's Welsh Jenkins brothers and their wives; his daughter Kate; the dogs, Richard's orange Peekenese,...

When I needed to find a new husband, I put on a RED dress, a red leather strapless mummy dress. "Red is the color to wear to get men," I've been telling my customers for almost forty years.

The  power of Red was first revealed to me by Fred Hayman,...

The Mini Wars or the debate over WHO invented the miniskirt and the wrap dress is heating up again. Who did what and when did they do it, has come to the attention of the fashionistas in my new book, It's all about the Dress as I describe Mia-Vicky's beginnings...

Elizabeth Taylor's infamously outrageous jewelry collection is up for sale on December 13th at Christie's in New York and I'm wondering what new queen will end up with her wandering (the translation of the word Le Peregrina) pearl. The pearl, favored by...

I met Elizabeth Taylor in the hallways of the Billancourt Studios in the leafy western suburbs of Paris. It was my first job, having just graduated from Parson's School of Design only three months before. I was twenty-one and hired to design the youthful costumes for What's New Pussycat, Woody...

A wedding dress is the perfect statement from a woman to her guests and future husband of how she wishes to present herself to the world. It's also the statement of her personal power. As for Kate Middleton, her message was clear. Her clean, understated design, a variation of Grace...

I met Elizabeth Taylor in October of 1964 at the Billancourt Film Studios in Paris. I had gone to Paris in May of the same year after graduating from Parsons School of Design in New York with my best friend and dress designing partner, Mia Fonssagrives, the daughter of Swedish...