What “It” Takes August 14, 2008
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This is a tongue-in-cheek promotional video for Tatiana Boncompagni’s “Gilding Lily,” which comes out through William Morrow/HarperCollins on September 9, 2008. The book follows the exploits of the fictional Lily Bartholomew, a girl from the South who marries into a prominent, old money New York family. Lily, once an “It” girl, loses it all when she loses her figure but carves her own niche in the bon ton again as a lifestyle and fashion reporter.
Tatiana is married to her fellow Georgetown alum, Maximilian Hoover, heir to the Hoover vaccuum fortune and the president of alternative energy company Good Energy. Together they have two young children, Enrico and Valentina.
She is a freelance writer for both the Financial Times and the New York Times’ Style section and has also written for Vogue, InStyle, and Cookie. (One of her most lauded pieces for the Times was about socialite branding.)
Actress Emmy Rossum and a kind of real-life Lily, Tinsley Mortimer, are hosting a party with Vogue, in honor of Tatiana’s book of society allusions the day after the tome’s official launch.
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LOL! I LOVE this video!!!
this is amazing. so right on. i love the “instafame” bit. juicy!
She’s really pretty. And she sounds like she has a good humor about all of this. Just for that alone… I am placing an Amazon order right now. Too many girls are too serious about all of this fluff. Go Tatiana! May this book bring you many more successes in life.
this is why i love the italian girls… in love with cute dress too…..
So great….
“Tongue-in-cheek” is an understatement.
Interesting. I wonder how Tinsley feels about being fictionalised by her social friends who write books. I remember in Plum Sykes’ Debutante Divorcee how there was a character named Tinsley and how another character in the book had the last name of Mortimer.
Want to be a socialite? Write a book about them! This pattern is getting all too familiar…
She looks and sounds great. Congrats Tatiana!
I wonder who really wrote it. This broad doesn’t sound like she knows how to put one foot in front of the other.