{"id":25256,"date":"2025-09-16T06:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/25256\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T06:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:06:07","slug":"tommy-and-dee-hilfigers-new-book-gives-glimpses-into-their-multiple-residences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/25256\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy and Dee Hilfiger’s New Book Gives Glimpses Into Their Multiple Residences"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTommy Hilfiger<\/a> and Dee Hilfiger<\/a> offer a glimpse into how they live and their past and present residences in a new book, \u201cHilfiger Homes\u201d which comes out this month.<\/p>\n

\n\tPublished by Vendome Press, the book is a visual autobiography and spotlights seven of their properties, photographed by Douglas Friedman, a longtime creative partner of the Hilfigers who specializes in fashion, architectural and interior design photography. Friedman\u2019s work has appeared in such publications as Harper\u2019s Bazaar, Elle Decor and Wallpaper, and numerous books. James Reginato, a writer-at-large for Vanity Fair and the former features director for W magazine, penned the copy, and Anna Wintour contributed the foreword.<\/p>\n

\n\tDee Ocleppo Hilfiger is the founder and creative director of both Dee Ocleppo and Mrs H. and also serves as the creative director of Judith Leiber. She and Tommy Hilfiger<\/a>, who has built his fashion company over the past 40 years, have been married since 2008 and share a large, blended family of seven children.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tVilla Maria in Palm Beach, as photographed in \u201cHilfiger Homes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDennis Friedman, courtesy of Tommy Hilfiger<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c\u2018Hilfiger Homes\u2019 tells the story of the places Dee and I have imagined, built and lived in \u2014 each one representing a meaningful chapter in our lives,\u201d Tommy Hilfiger told WWD. \u201cSome we call home, others are part of our past. It\u2019s a celebration of design, creativity and personal expression, and my hope is that it inspires readers to embrace their own style and create spaces that truly reflect who they are,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe book describes what it took to turn these homes into showplaces, all the work that went into them and why they made the decisions they did. Family photographs are interspersed into the pages of the books. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tA view of Villa Deniz in Miami, as featured in \u201cHilfiger Homes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDouglas Friedman, courtesy of Tommy HIlfiger<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ve bought and decorated so many houses over the years, we thought a book would be a beautiful way to archive everything we\u2019ve done, and share it with people,\u201d said Tommy Hilfiger in the book. \u201cEach one has been a labor of love. It\u2019s been fun to collaborate on all these projects. For us, it\u2019s not just about living in these spaces, but about bringing a vision to life and honoring the history and character of each property,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the book, he and Dee Hilfiger give credit to those with whom they work. In addition to Cindy Rinfret of the interior design firm, Rinfret Ltd., which is based in Greenwich, Conn., their interior-designer team includes Los Angeles\u2013based Martyn Lawrence Bullard and Paris-based Chahan Minassian. For landscape design, they use Miranda Brooks and Deborah Nevins of New York and Mario Nievera and Keith Williams of Palm Beach.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re hands-on because we care deeply about every detail,\u201d said Hilfiger in the book. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tAn inside view of Round Hill in Greenwich, Conn.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDouglas Friedman, courtesy of Tommy Hilfiger<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hilfigers have lived in many places from Manhattan to the Caribbean island of Mustique, and each of their homes is different and exudes a unique approach to design and life. For example, their Palm Beach paradise is a world away from their bespoke Greenwich manor, which differs completely from their retro-glam 1970s-style Miami home and their vacation house on Mustique. There\u2019s also their sleek Feadship yacht, Flag, a 203-foot superyacht, on which the family sails during the summer.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA house is always a work in progress, just like life,\u201d said Tommy Hilfiger in the book. Throughout the colorful pages, each of the beautiful homes are featured along with family members. For example, Tommy and the couple\u2019s son Sebastian are shown jumping into the Palm Beach pool wearing swimsuits and button-down shirts. \u201cIt\u2019s barefoot elegance\u2026the opposite of our busy lives,\u201d said Hilfiger.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tThe house at Round Hill, photographed in \u201cHilfiger Homes.\u201d <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDouglas Friedman, Courtesy of Tommy Hilfiger<\/p>\n

\n\tAt their Plaza Hotel apartment, where the couple began their married life, artwork featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, and Mickey Mouse line the walls. \u201cI loved living there. It was a very special, exciting time in our lives,\u201d said Dee Hilfiger. For their Round Hill estate in Greenwich, Dee Hilfiger said, \u201cWe knew we were going to buy this house from the second we walked in. It had us at hello.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tThe Plaza Hotel apartment.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Tommy Hilfiger<\/p>\n

\n\tHilfiger has owned several properties in Florida spanning Miami to Palm Beach. \u201cThe inspiration for the [Miami Beach House, Villa Dentz] is Austin Powers\u2026a fun, crazy, Miami, Pop Art wild beach house,\u201d said Tommy. The couple and their family are shown on surfboards, motorboats, and kayaks. Their Villa Maria home in Miami was a lot calmer situation. Of Flag, their floating dream house, Tommy said, \u201cIt\u2019s really a floating house in every way \u2014 our summer house.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe book ends with Coral House in Palm Beach which is on South Ocean Boulevard, and took a while to find. \u201cDee and I have worked on many houses together, but I would say this one has been the most challenging so far,\u201d said Tommy.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOnce we were in the living room, we looked at the lake on one side and the ocean on the other side. Dee said, \u2018This is it.’\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThat house took three years to restore to its original glory. \u201cWe had so many contractors bumping into each other, it\u2019s like the Keystone Cops,\u201d said Tommy Hilfiger. \u201cIt was really a test of patience and determination. A lot of people would have given up,\u201d said Hilfiger in the book. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tA view of Coral House in \u201cHilfiger Homes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDouglas Friedman, courtesy of Tommy Hilfiger<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve so enjoyed vicariously visiting Tommy just about everywhere in the world by poring over this book, which makes clear that he gives as much creative consideration to his interiors as he does to his runway collections,\u201d wrote Wintour in the foreword.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tThe bar area at Coral House, photographed in \u201cHilfiger Homes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDouglas Friedman, courtesy of \u201cHilfiger Homes.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 336-page hardcover book features 300 color illustrations and retails for $75.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy Hilfiger and Dee Hilfiger offer a glimpse into how they live and their past and present residences…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[489,156,111,139,69,25613],"class_list":{"0":"post-25256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-tommy-hilfiger"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}