5/13/2023 0 Comments D.V. by Diana Vreeland![]() ![]() 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 Gable to Swifty Lazar, you never want her to stop. 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. And she devoted herself to this infectious, all-encompassing idea that you could make yourself as interestingas fabulousas you wanted. ![]() 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. There’s only one very good life and that’s the life you know you want and you make it yourself, Vreeland famously said. Her bestselling autobiography takes us with her around the globe in the company of royalty, actors, artists, and designers. 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. Diana Vreeland (1906-1989) was this century's most formidable arbiter of elegance. As fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar and editor-in-chief of Vogue, Diana Vreeland-and her passion, charm, insouciance, and genius for style-energized and inspired the fashion world for fifty years. ![]()
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