![]() ![]() ![]() is unique among memoirs: a conversation as pleasurable as a perfect wardrobe. Whatever her subject, from backaches to nostalgia, from Paris to New York, from marriage to dinner parties, from Clark Cable to Swifty Lazar, you never want her to stop. Eleanor Dwightdelivers the definitive biography of Diana Vreeland, the twentieth centurysmost influential fashion editor. Here she tells how Buffalo Bill taught her to ride, describes how she redefined the standards of attractiveness with the quirky models she brought to Vogue in the sixties, disparages her own looks, relates her search for the perfect red, and discourses on the nature of elegance. The book is filled with dazzling stories of style, society and success. Throughout, her vivacious conversation is peppered with glittering stories and outrageous pronouncements, displaying fully the talent for perception and persuasion that made her the empress of chic. Her bestselling autobiography takes us with her around the globe in the company of royalty, actors, artists, and designers. In New York, he struck gold, working with greats like Diana Vreeland at the Metropolitan of Art Andy Warhol at Interview magazine and eventually landing at American Vogue as the magazines first. As fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar, editor in chief of Vogue, and creator of dozens of famous exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, her passion, charm, insouciance, and genius for style energized and inspired the world of fashion for fifty years. Book Summaryĭiana Vreeland (1906-1989) was this century's most formidable arbiter of elegance. The cover has some wear and light creases. by Diana Vreeland is a 196-page softcover published by Da Capo Press, New York, 1997. ![]()
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