Billy Norwich
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Suddenly everyone wants a job in fashion.
And people would come to Vogue.
With all due respect, is anyone from HR here?
Why did you let them up, those poor children?
And Chloe, they would, you got the sense, they never read Vogue.
So the late Charles Gandy and I were noticing this.
And we came up with a list of a hundred people that were sort of our constant cast of characters Whether they were in you know If they wrote a book if they coughed if they made a frock they got covered in folk because they were the constant cast of characters arts theater sport So we made a list of a hundred people This was before
Computer I don't know where the guy Michael Grinbaum got this list from did you send it to him?
I didn't I wish I had had an early copy and it was the test and we would give it to People came I love Vogue here have do this test and Quite there had questions on it.
Like who's Diana Vreeland?
Who's Anna Wintour and there would be people who didn't know I mean there were also questions about Proust but sure and
Well, I mean, didn't Irving Penn take a picture of Proust?
I mean, no.
Proust was always discussed, because if you interviewed someone at Vogue, what are you reading?
They didn't read Judith Krantz, they were reading, I'm rereading The Remembrance of Things Past.
Look at my wicker garden.
And it was, yeah, so he did this test.
They made a t-shirt, Chloe.
I have the t-shirt.
I'll give you mine.