diane von furstenberg, daphne guinness, suzy menkes. thank you all. alleyuentworth is here, the daughter of a political journalist and president reagan's white house social secretary. after college she committed the ultimate act of rebellion for a daughter from a prominent washington family. she ran away to hollywood. she made a name for herself as an actor and comedian and much more. she appeared in the comedy series "in living colors" and films like "jerry maguire" and "office space." in 2001 her life came full circle when she found herself on a blind date with george stephanopoulos in a new york restaurant. within the year the two were married and living in washington, d.c. her new book "alley in wonderland" chronicles her circuitous life with candor. >> wow, i just listed everything. >> rose: this is the famous architectural digest "celebrities at home." we get to look inside your apartment. this is the new york apartment? >> this is the new york apartment. >> rose: the martha's vineyard apartment? >> i wish. i wish. it's the apartment in new york

with a look at fashion week in new york, joining us diane von furstenberg, daphne guinness, and suzy menkes. >> the idea of empowering women came from my mother. my mother during the war was a prisoner of war. she was in the concentration camp at age 20. she came back-- she came-- she survived. she was 49 pounds. and she wasn't supposed to have survived. he did survive. he game weight. she married my farther. she wasn't supposed to have a child, and i was born. so to some degree the day i was born i had already won and i was a miracle. so i think that my mother, the biget lesson she gave me is that fear is not an option. >> rose: we conclude with alley wentworth. >> a lot of very fascinating people came over. my mother was friends with genetic onassis and nixon was around because my step-father was covering for the "london sunday times" the kennedy-nixon administration, and i used to swim on the back of henry kissinger. he would come and swim in our pool and i would on to his neck and hold on and he was bombing cambodia at the same time. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our