Apparently Shirley MacLaine and I have a lot in common. I was informed of this immutable fact by David Kibbe, the legendary style-and-image enabler who also happens to be a golden-age-of-Hollywood savant, former piano prodigy, and, in the opinion of his wife, muse, and business partner, Susan Slavin, a one-man branch of philosophy: “David is metaphysics.”
I’m no scientist, but maybe that explains the otherworldly trajectory of a 68-year-old (or “68 going on 17,” as he says; “I disconnected from numerical ages years ago”) from a 3,000-person town, smack in the middle of Missouri, who moved to New York City in 1976 to become an actor and ended up creating a guide to bodies, clothing, and inner harmony that is, four decades later, somehow more popular than ever.
