215. Dunne in Haute Couture | Paris 1998
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Fashionista investigators, this one is for you! In a little break from true crime, Dominick Dunne travels to Paris for the January 1998 couture collections, and what a time he had! In this mix of high fashion and celebrity, our man Nick is catching on quickly in this world, and revealing all the inside scoop. From the beginnings of couture to its Paris history, from one show and event to another, it is quite a debut week for Dominick.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | That's audible.co.uk slash wondery. |
| 0:11.5 | Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things, Dominic Dunn. |
| 0:19.2 | And this week, investigators, we are living our best life in |
| 0:23.6 | Paris with our man Nick. Thank you for joining me today for this ride of Ote Couture and Dominic |
| 0:30.8 | Dunn's whirlwind time, seeing all the shows and all the swells in January of 1988. |
| 0:40.1 | Dominic spills all the details about his adventure for Vanity Fair in May of 1988, |
| 0:47.2 | as well as in his collection Fatal Charms in Mansions of Limbo. |
| 0:52.4 | As an introduction to this episode, get a load of the subhead from his Vanity Fair piece |
| 0:59.2 | called Paris when it sizzles. |
| 1:02.5 | Paris really comes alive twice a year, charged by the grand, fabulous folly of the Couture shows, the triumph of $250,000 dresses by |
| 1:16.5 | Yves Saint Laurent, Carl Lagerfeld, and Valentino, among others. There was the endless parade in |
| 1:24.9 | the Ritz Lobby, Diana Ross and the Miller sisters, applauding John |
| 1:30.1 | Galliano's decadent Dior happening, T, with Adnan Koshagi, and close, close, close. |
| 1:39.3 | So went Dominic Dunn's whirlwind debut at the collections. |
| 1:46.1 | Oh, and what a whirlwind debut it was. |
| 1:50.0 | Before we begin our Parisian adventure today, I do have some fine folks to thank for |
| 1:55.0 | becoming our newest supporters on Patreon. |
| 1:58.7 | Holy cats, big love, big praise, huge thanks to you, Yoli and Linda C. |
| 2:04.5 | I am so grateful for you and all of our sustaining Patreon supporters as well. |
| 2:10.7 | It has been a big week over on Patreon, too, not done yet episodes dropped. |
| 2:16.1 | We continued with Jacqueline de Reeb, and we spilled a little |
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