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In terms of organizing the space into the simply resolved series of rooms it now comprises, there were several problems. In fact, many people don't know that my father was actually a set designer before he became a director, so I've always had this terrific sensory backdrop to my life.” “First of all, consider this: I've always been surrounded by sets. I'd say, ‘Tim, did you see Gigi? Do you remember the lace tablecloth?’ But very soon we were both on the same wavelength.” Along the way, there were certain long-cherished memories to be given reality, and certain elusive necessities to be tracked down. Tim was really patient with me, and got used to my announcing dramatically, ‘I want something literary’ ‘I want something out of the Belle Epoque’ ‘I want something that Diaghilev would have dreamed up for the marquesa di Casati.’ Somehow, he sorted out all this information and gave me what I really wanted-and hadn't quite been able to put into words. “I'm one of those people who know what they like, and I guess that makes designers delighted or very nervous. I'd already found the apartment, and when I brought Tim up here, he took one look and said, ‘Great.’ Then we were off and running immediately. So he invited Tim and me to the same dinner party, and we hit it off right away. “A good friend of mine, Halston, knew in his own clever way that I was looking for a designer, but that I would hate to go to some one's office and be shown swatches.

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“I suppose our professional relationship began in a fairly unorthodox way,” says Minnelli.

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