Americans always great personalities were taken – we love adventurer and iconoclast who embody the American spirit. And for much of the twentieth century, Diana Vreeland was one of the greatest personalities of the country. Of their endless Bon Mots to her hair signature painted, to their famous application that your living room look “a garden and a garden in hell, such as” she was an original, whose presence in the American style looms.
Once, said that “Style you gotta.” It helps you to stand in the morning. It is a way of life…. “And I’m talking not about many clothing.” And in fact, her life with style was glued. When she lived in London, she painted her front door red. When she wrote her autobiography, she embellished the truth stories invented and then their entertaining mix of facts and fiction “Fraction.” While he is in vogue, she invented the word pizzazz. She discovered Lauren Bacall in the 1940s and helped Twiggys to start career in America. When her Manolo Blahnik fashion showed his sketches, she advised to focus on shoes. She gave style advice to her good friend Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and shopped for Katherine Graham. And in the decades opinion after another, including “Too much good taste can be boring” and “I’m terrible on facts.” dealt them a Quotable But I have always an idea. “If you have an idea, you are well underway”
The first column “why don’t you” debuted in 1936
Born in Vreeland, an American mother and British father in Paris, spent most of her life in New York City. In an interview in 1980 with Henry Geldzahler, NYC Commissioner of cultural affairs they stated that “it is a work-man city.” There are no free time. We are not looking for. “It does not exist how happy you are to be… here!” Her dance in the St. Regis in a Chanel top dress and Bolero began her fashion career after Harper’s Bazaar editor Carmel snow with roses in her hair hidden. Although Vreeland had no editorial experience, snow realized her potential and offered her a job. In Harper’s Bazaar, Vreeland created the legendary “why don’t you?” Column in which fun and whimsical often outlandish ideas proposed. Proposals ranged from “not why you purple velvet mittens with all that carry?” to “why don’t you paint a map of the world on all four walls of your young tree nursery so that they grow up with a provincial point of view is not?” The column reflects carefree individuality, which was estimated in America.
A photo of the famous 1968 collaboration between Veruschka, Franco Rubartelli and Giorgio di Sant’Angelo in painted desert of Arizona.
Vreeland was for 25 years for Harpers and was known for championing American design and close cooperation with the photographers and models. She left Harper’s Bazaar for vogue in 1962, where their creative input to photo shoots led – such as the July 1968 collaboration between Veruschka and Franco Rubartelli-, which are still famous. In vogue, Vreeland, an idea was inspired photographers and models of to far-flung locales such as Japan and Bali for shoots, travel, the pioneering at the time. Finally, the price of these shoots too much for Vogue, which let 1971 go they became. Despite that she had a precedent new for fashion editorial, and photography – Richard Avedon credited to edit them, which happened by and largely for society women to create “a totally new profession” out of fashion. She was on special consultant for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of art. Its exhibits, including the 1973 “The glory of Russian costume” was the “world of Balenciaga” and 1976′s enormous numbers of people and the Party of the year was the annual Costume Institute Gala. After her death in 1989, the New York Times noted that she had “congenital the extraordinary pace of change are in the 20th century of life.”
Vreeland in your living room “garden from hell”
Of course, their apartment Park Avenue was also iconic and one of the most famous rooms in the design history is his red living room. Decorated with American designer Billy Baldwin 1955 home, that she was with her husband, common Reed and his two sons a riot of color and pattern. There were no minimalism or subdued decor. Fat strip ran the pages of the dining room and decorate the matching cushions and Bank, create a look similar to as a chic, preppy tent. Her room was designed by the British designer, Syrie Maugham, an English garden with blue chintz for the walls and a bed. The effect of these rooms was personally spectacular – especially the living room in the night be red. Its taste, while not for everyone, was definitely her own and she embraced it. Over the years, it has many interviews in your own living room.
Throughout her life, Vreeland was known for their theatricality and disrespect. By inventing a childhood spent in Cairo, to help her exuberant write (“Vreeland!”) “-with a V!” I say if I have my name over the phone. “” V as in “victory”! (“V as”violent”!”), to their opinions (“what age you are, you are be older than you should.”), it was never boring. New York Magazine found that have stories about her “have a common denominator: none of them has something to do with modern life, as it is often lived.” She was a true icon lived with elegance, style and serenity.
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Video Credit: Diana Vreeland tribute of VogueSpirit on YouTube
Image Credits 1. Diana Vreeland, Park Avenue Jonathan Becker in 1979 on 1stDibs 2. Horst p. Horst / © art + trade on that day in mode 3. Harper’s Bazaar Oct. 1955 Edition by LUA-jewelry-4. Harper’s Bazaar of 5. Franco Rubartelli for Vogue/Conde Nast on on this day in fashion 6.1947 Arthur Rothstein photograph for look magazine via Media Bistro 7. By paramount picture 1957 film funny face on the Medestrian of 8. Richard Avedon, 1966 9. architecture Digest celebrity homes on the peak of chic. 10. Chronicle Books 11. Martin Munkacsi, Greta Garbo during the holiday, 1932 via Flavorwire of 12. Architectural Digest celebrity houses about peak chic 13. Priscilla Rattazzi for New York magazine. 14. Visionaire magazine at Amazon. 15. Peter Lindberg for Harper’s Bazaar
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