Scent and Sensitivity

As a little girl, Tatiana Von Furstenberg—daughter of Diane and Egon and, by all accounts, a passionate child— railed at her mother for naming her perfume after her. "Everyone utters my name," she sighed. "I want it to be only you." Today Revlon has bought the license for the fragrance, and is relaunching Tatiana the perfume. Tatiana the student (eighteen this month) is book-bound at Brown, a sophomore majoring in comparative literature and French semiotics. Quadrilingual Tatiana says she "overdosed" on fashion in early adolescence. Whenever Egon came to visit, he took her clothes shopping ("shoulder pads, lame, miniskirts. . . I got so turned off. I just stuck to my jeans"). She's recovered enough by now to have attended the New York show for Diane's new collection of signature jersey clothes, some of which Tatiana wears here. Fashion, however, remains a low priority. She's written an allegorical play about the politics of motherhood, and is taking an independent study in photojournalism. Eventually, she says, she wants to own a magazine.

BEN BRANTLEY