Episode Two “Angel in Chanel”
“Angel in Chanel”
Liz Tilberis was nice. Legendarily nice. People claimed that when she fired an editor, they left feeling they’d won something. (They usually left with a chic little gift, too.) In this episode, we explore the way that Liz’s natural warmth and ability to charm one and all made her not only something of a unicorn in fashion but also fueled her ascent from Sixties London fashion student to editor of British Vogue and contributed to the unlikely success of her Harper’s Bazaar. As Paul Cavaco explains, it was Liz’s likeability that made people willing to take a risk and help Liz realize her dream magazine. “It just felt like the Gods were finally doing something right,” says Isaac Mizrahi. In this episode, we talk to our old Bazaar colleagues and Liz’s friends from the British Vogue days, Grace Coddington, Willie Christie, and Sam McKnight, plus Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, and Patrick Jephson, private secretary to Liz’s close friend Princess Diana, about the warm wonderful Liz—and the canny strategist behind the smile.
