On White

"A protocol of white---which, remember, is the presence of all color---formed a retaining wall around the personality of its flamboyant celebrity resident. Just as insecure urbanites dress in black, Liberace chose a palette of white, with all its associations of class, confidence, heavenly purity and arctic death."

-Susan Yelavich
Nest Magazine, Fall 2000



"In summer I sleep under a white ermine cover and in winter, under sable." -Karl Lagerfeld