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Speaker 1: it was um. So you you just you became overnight

425
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: a success on Seventh Avenue. And uh, but when did

426
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,879
Speaker 1: you start designing other things? It was first for I

427
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:28,679
Speaker 1: went into clothing maybe fifty twenty years ago because I

428
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 1: was always designing the things to be worn under. I thought, well,

429
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 1: why were I making these clients right? And then we

430
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:41,880
Speaker 1: just developed and kept going. So you've been now designing

431
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 1: for how many years? Forty years? Will be forty years.

432
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: We have a lot of landmarks together. This is my

433
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,960
Speaker 1: forty year of being I wrote my first book forty

434
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 1: years ago, like two days ago was my birthday of

435
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 1: my first book, so that I considered that at the

436
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,240
Speaker 1: beginning of my career. Yes, of course, lifestyle and here

437
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 1: you are designing furs and fashion forty years ago. Isn't

438
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 1: that amazing? You know? And we're both from New Jersey

439
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: by the way, everyone, so you have a big philosophy

440
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 1: about dressing and dressing correctly. Um. I know that your

441
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 1: clientele really goes to you for advice about what to

442
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 1: wear to what and what to and how to put

443
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: it together. So you're not only a designer, you're also

444
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 1: kind of stylist to some of the most beautiful and

445
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: exquisite women in the world. You know, how did that happen?

446
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 1: I just I think that's I think that's like natural.

447
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:47,919
Speaker 1: I think that's who I am. I mean, I just

448
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 1: know what even as a child, I mean, I was

449
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: busy doing this with my mother and she's like listening

450
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:55,680
Speaker 1: to a nine year old. I think it was my thing,

451
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:57,120
Speaker 1: you know how, like a nine year old to sit

452
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: down and played the piano like chopin and they're like,

453
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 1: but mom should listen to their kids because their kids

454
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:06,439
Speaker 1: have a different perspective. Yes, and they knew that I was.

455
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 1: I just it was very natural, and even just two

456
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: hours ago, to protect people's privacy. A very very important

457
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 1: woman who could have anything in the world just can't

458
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 1: give this after her death and fittings. And she's gonna

459
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:24,679
Speaker 1: wear this fabulous jumpsuit with feathers and on a big

460
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 1: Christmas party in pomp Beach. And she said, so what

461
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 1: should I said, you need to take? She has a

462
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: huge diamond swan pin from graft and I said, you

463
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: pin that right in the middle of the bow that's

464
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: at your waist. She said, oh my god. I bracelets

465
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: and maybe just ear rings and just keep it not

466
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 1: just but and so that's part of what I'm going

467
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 1: to call me the pictures exactly. See who's wearing that

468
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: swan pit? How great? So, I mean, I think it's

469
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 1: part of you know, mean, it's something that I love.

470
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: And the other thing I love is you know was

471
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: the home. I mean, I love not the most well.

472
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 1: Dennis has one of the most exquisite homes in Southampton,

473
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 1: Long Island. I've had the pleasure of having dinner there

474
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 1: a couple of times, but not only the home. It's

475
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 1: the home, the garden, the table, the collections of table

476
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: where that you own of and he is very proud

477
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: of the tables he sets. So it really is amazing.

478
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: But you really do take you take it from high

479
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 1: fashion to table fashion. Yeah, it's more than interested in

480
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: you being the queen of home. It is the only

481
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:46,959
Speaker 1: thing that transports me to another place. When I'm getting ready,

482
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 1: I think of nothing else. When I'm designing, I'm thinking,

483
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: are they're gonna like it is? Who's gonna wear it?

484
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: Can this be worn by a curvy girl? Can this

485
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 1: be worn by a particular there was is always a

486
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 1: second thing going on. When you're in my house or

487
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 1: on our apartment in New York. I'm just having a

488
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: good time creating, and it's it's an obsession actually, I

489
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 1: mean we have a lot of stuff. You've been man,

490
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 1: you've seen eating the same fork in the same plate

491
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 1: is amazing. Yes, it's part of it's a hobby. Actually

492
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 1: that that's nice. It is a hobby, but it's also

493
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 1: a lifestyle and you've you've created a lifestyle that that

494
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 1: so many people want to emulate. Yes, and that's work.

495
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 1: As you know, it's never easy. Listen, who entertains better

496
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 1: than you? You know, to make it good, to make

497
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: it pretty, you need even with people helping you, it's

498
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: still work. It is you have to think, to think

499
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: and have an archive. I mean, don't you call it

500
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 1: your archives? Your library of things to set a table?

501
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: Are you selling things in the home area now onc Yes,

502
00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 1: some things, but mostly in the faux for blind get

503
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 1: some the Little Teddy Bears and I did some Christmas

504
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: ornaments and we did some dishes, you know, a few

505
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 1: items here and there. But the strength is things that

506
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 1: I've done with the Froe far. But back to fashion

507
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: because I don't want to. I don't want to end

508
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 1: that discussion. Um, as we heard head into this new year,

509
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 1: two years ago, COVID began. Now we're kind of out

510
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: of it. Uh, we're still h We're still a little worried. Um.

511
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 1: Many people are looking to approach their wardrobes in a

512
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: in a different way. What do you see? What trends

513
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: are you seeing? It's a designer to the stars. I

514
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: think I think we've come out of it. Wanting to

515
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: be stylish. People want to get dressed up again. People

516
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 1: are focused on that, but people don't want to give

517
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: a comfort up. So there's a little bit so apropoached

518
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: the luncheon we have the other day. At another given time,

519
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 1: every home would have really come in some sort of

520
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: a suit, a lady suit, skirt suit that look a

521
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 1: little tight, a little pushed in. Now people were wearing

522
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:17,240
Speaker 1: a beautiful pants and Cashmissweather is beautiful, beautiful dressed up.

523
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 1: But I think we've revisited how we dress and how

524
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: we look. I mean, if we just let's just jump

525
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: back twenty years today, if I was coming here, I

526
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 1: would only have been probably coming to do this in

527
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 1: a dark suit and a white shirt and a tie.

528
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: I'm all dressed up, but you look good, and you

529
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 1: look here's a black turtleneck on and a beautiful scarf

530
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: and a lovely checker jacket. Yes, all dressed up, but

531
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 1: we've taken it. And you too. You're in a kashmir

532
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: and top that you know. I'm in a sweatsuit by

533
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: Laura Piano. Hello, what is that? Okay? Right? Right? But

534
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 1: I had a lot of meetings. That's where I apologize.

535
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: I have to get dressed for a Christmas party. Tonight.

536
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: But you'll like, You'll like when I'm wearing I'm wearing

537
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 1: sequin pants, gold sequin pants and a bright red jacket.

538
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 1: If you wanted to go tonight with this, you put

539
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:18,239
Speaker 1: on your big baroque pearls, a small bag. I could go.

540
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 1: You could go and nobody would think that you aren't

541
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: dressed that right, Uncle Boot, I mean with a heel.

542
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: That's what changed. But that's which changed in fashion, Martha,

543
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 1: that we're able to do things that really weren't acceptable before.

544
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: So what's your current trend obsession in design? What are

545
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 1: you what are you designing this accommodating women like like us?

546
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: Because Dennis Bassa was known for occasion clothes. So what

547
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: you're wearing today, you don't need to come to Dennis

548
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: Basso to buy that because they're doing Laura Piano and

549
00:33:56,880 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: Brunello Cristianity. They're doing the best. You come to me

550
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: for the sequence, Pats, Yes, I do right. So I'm

551
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: just saying, so that's I've stayed people. I think today

552
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: you need to stay in your lane, so to speak,

553
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 1: of what you do best. You can't do everything best.

554
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: You're not gonna go have hot surgery by a hip doctor.

555
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: You want to stay you want to stay in your

556
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: lane and slowly branch out to things that feel like

557
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,400
Speaker 1: something to you. Yes, you do that. People want to

558
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 1: be dressed again. So you've been on QBC for how

559
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 1: many years? Twenty nine years? You're you're the longest performer,

560
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 1: the longest um um. There's a few others, yeah, who

561
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 1: have been uh not only entertaining but selling to a

562
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: vast audience on QBC. That was the first really televised

563
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: shopping network in America and uh, and it's still going strong,

564
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 1: and your business is still going strong. Doing it from

565
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: home or dad, you go down to Westchester home, but

566
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 1: I'm doing it from home later on and tomorrow. But

567
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 1: Saturday you're going down Westchester five times. Oh you have.

568
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 1: I haven't been back yet. But QVC we we really

569
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: do enjoy your performances there because it is a performance.

570
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: You are the penultimate sales persons. You think about exposure.

571
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 1: It's been so much fun. I mean, I mean, I

572
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 1: think I remember. Actually December four was my twenty ninth year.

573
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: Amazing and QBC honored you with a documentary. Yes, if

574
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 1: you go to um QVC h slash Dennis back, you

575
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,799
Speaker 1: see that documents done quite well. I thought. I thought

576
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 1: they did a beautiful job. And it really does high

577
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 1: and show the highlights of your career, the funny moments

578
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:03,840
Speaker 1: that show Michael Pack Oh yes, yeah show the sketch

579
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: is so great. And everybody knows Dennis by his name

580
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: Dennis any other Denis. People know he's Dennis the Menace,

581
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:21,720
Speaker 1: and he's also Dennis the Menace. So the fun people,

582
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: what's the best thing you ever designed? Do you think?

583
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 1: What's the one one item of clothing that you would

584
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 1: hold up and say, I am really proud of this item.

585
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 1: So it was two things, two different things. I did

586
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 1: a golden sable coat to the floor and twenty five

587
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 1: years ago Ivana Trump close the Fashion show wearing that.

588
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 1: It was just over the tap and the King of

589
00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia bought it. He bought it for his wife.

590
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 1: I don't know, somebody. It was quite over the top.

591
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 1: The other thing which I have loved in the movie Chicago,

592
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: the finale number with Katherine's Eater Jones and Renaized Alager.

593
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: They do some big rasbotas number and we did these

594
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: big white capes trimmed white fox. It was so Broadway,

595
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 1: so Hollywood that there were two fun things that movie

596
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 1: I loved. I loved Katherine Sada Jones. I went to

597
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: her wedding to Michael Douglas, did you do anything for

598
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: her wedding? No? But wasn't it in the Bahamas or no? No?

599
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 1: They got married in New York at the Plaza Hotel. Yeah,

600
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: it was funny. I sat with Anthony Hopkins. Yeah it was.

601
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: It was a fun fun table. Um. Oh wow, we

602
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: had some and Russell Crow sat at our table. I

603
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 1: loved Russell bro Yes, I'd say about celebrity people. Um.

604
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,800
Speaker 1: Star Jones when she got married the first time, she

605
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:12,240
Speaker 1: had a huge wedding at Saint Bartholomew and then the

606
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: world off and she said to me, I'm going to

607
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 1: sit you with some people that you don't know, but

608
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: you're going to thank me. Go to the wedding. We

609
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 1: go to the table and I'm seated with Mr and

610
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 1: Mrs Denzel Washington, Mr and Mrs Samuel Jackson, big time

611
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: movie stars. And then and they knew that I was

612
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 1: that I had done a white Man code for Star's wedding.

613
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,799
Speaker 1: This was on a Saturday. The store was open on

614
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:46,240
Speaker 1: a Sunday. The next morning all those girls were waiting

615
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 1: at my store. They and their husbands have hated you.

616
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 1: Ever since we have been we have become such close friends.

617
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: They are so great. But I'll tell you I was

618
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: at a party with Southampton Wants a friend of mine

619
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: who was a client. His wife is talking to a

620
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: man and the man says to my friend who's and

621
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,720
Speaker 1: I was the other fellow. Who is that fellow talking

622
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 1: to my wife? And my friend said to this gentleman

623
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: that conversation is going to cause you about fifty hours. Well,

624
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 1: you've you've been such such a good mentor to other

625
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,399
Speaker 1: fashionistas of people who are interested in fashion. What one

626
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: piece of advice would you give to a young student

627
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 1: if I t today uh to encourage them to either

628
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:37,319
Speaker 1: continue or discontinue their education and fashion. No, I think

629
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: you have to be I think so. I think the

630
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: education is the most important part, to learn the techniques

631
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 1: of what's going to come forward and how it's done.

632
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,800
Speaker 1: But you have to taste it, you have to feel it.

633
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: It's like you could go to become a doctor if

634
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 1: you're not interested in the human body and the science,

635
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:02,399
Speaker 1: no matter how much you study. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: think if you have that knows for it, don't give up.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna you have. But it's as master and I

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Speaker 1: just said, it's hard work because nothing is easy. You

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Speaker 1: need to be focused and work on it and don't

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Speaker 1: necessarily take no from an answer. Keep there. You know,

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Speaker 1: when when a door is shut, sometimes a window opens,

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Speaker 1: and you need to be focused. It's all about being focused,

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Speaker 1: and don't be afraid to work somebody who's you're working

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Speaker 1: in a company and you're giving them. They're all the

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Speaker 1: people that could help you. I've noticed. Know what you're

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Speaker 1: doing well. Dennis Basso has a great future still ahead

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Speaker 1: of him. A dear friend of mine, Domini blue Hoorn,

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Speaker 1: recently had to go to a family wedding in the

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Speaker 1: Dominican Republic and she was frantically looking for three evening gowns.

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Speaker 1: She went everywhere in New York looking for these evening

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Speaker 1: awns and then the friend told her, you know, you

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Speaker 1: should really go to Dennis Basso. Dominique has a very slender,

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Speaker 1: beautiful figure. She went, she went to your shop and

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Speaker 1: found three dresses in one hour, which is on her

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Speaker 1: on her of her for Dominique, by the way, but

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Speaker 1: boy does she love those dresses and she loves how

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Speaker 1: she looks in those dresses and feels in those dresses.

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Speaker 1: So I think that Dennis Basso knows he has his

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Speaker 1: finger on the pulse of American fashion. You really do.

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Speaker 1: And and you also have your your finger on what

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Speaker 1: people like. Well. I think that's so important. You have

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Speaker 1: to get a sense. It's all about the sense also

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Speaker 1: to sort of know what's right for that person. You

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Speaker 1: only want them to have something great from you, but

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Speaker 1: not just that person, but the public in general. Public.

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Speaker 1: I think I think you have that that real good,

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Speaker 1: good intuition that that so many other people are lacking,

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Speaker 1: and and you can sort of trust Dennis Basso. It's

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Speaker 1: always a pleasure to catch up with you, Dennis, and

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Speaker 1: there's so much more to talk about. We'll have a

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Speaker 1: repeat visit maybe maybe next next spring or summer and UM.

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Speaker 1: To find out more about Dennis, please visit his website

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Speaker 1: at Dennis O. Basso dot com or follow him on

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Speaker 1: Instagram at Dennis Basso b A S S O. UM.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you soon. I love you. This was great.

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Speaker 1: Thank you everybody for joining us,