WHO AND WHAT INSPIRE ME, Diana Vreeland, People who speak their mind, Anyone who can wear red and leopard print together, Big jewelry, Oscar Wilde. Paris, in any season, any hour of the day or night. "The Women of Algiers" by Eugène Delacroix, The movie "Auntie Mame", The movie "Barry Lyndon", A Tony Duquette interior, Cigarette holders, A good glass of French red, Any dress Geoffrey Beene ever designed, Venice at night, A dinner party with friends chez moi when the conversation is flowing and so is the wine, Marisa Berenson, A John Singer Sargent portrait, The work of W. Somerset Maugham, W Magazine when it was a fabulous newspaper, Anything Chopin ever composed, Yves Saint Laurent (you're why I live in Paris, monsieur)