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model pasts collide in l.a.

June 4, 2008 12:08 pm

Oscar

Patience is a virtue that textile designer Lulu de Kwiatkowski understands better than most. Not only is she currently awaiting the birth of her twin sons (due in September), but for the past three years she’s been anticipating an arrival of a different sort: the debut of “Lulu,” a 192-page assortment of journal entries, paintings, drawings, love letters, and photography. “It’s the result of severe jet lag following a vacation to Southeast Asia,” she explained at the book’s debut in Los Angeles last night. The venue was the Oscar de la Renta boutique on Melrose Place, where Vogue’s West Coast editor, Lisa Love, and Oscar de la Renta Home creative director Miles Redd hosted a dinner for guests such as jewelry designer Liseanne Frankfurt and accessories designer Brigitte Romanek. But it wasn’t until Ione Skye started zeroing in on a series of collages featuring two bikini-clad women (de Kwiatkowski’s mother and grandmother, both of whom were swimsuit models) that the family revelations really started to unfurl. Upon hearing the news, Skye revealed that her own mother, Enid, had modeled for Oscar de la Renta in 1965.

—Linlee Allen

Photo: Linlee Allen

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