In fashion, this meant she invented ways of seeing clothes and women. She also developed a spry Twitter-esque way of communicating her ideas: a monthly column of somewhat random one-line suggestions, called "Why Don't You?
Some Vreeland ideas I'll keep in mind: "Why don't you Feb 26, Relyn rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: stylish women everywhere. Shelves: gotta-buy , it-s-a-perfect-book , style-fashion-beauty. Oh, I did love this book. LOVED it! I have to offer full disclosure and tell you that I do not like biographies, but I love memoirs.
I think it's the impatient part of me. I do not have time to read their whole life story. Not interested. However, I love to read about someone's life when it is linked to a theme, the wittier the better. And I do love foodie memoirs. Technically, this isn't a memoir because DV herself didn't write it.
But, it only deals with her years at Bazaar and does Oh, I did love this book. But, it only deals with her years at Bazaar and doesn't actually go into much about her personal life. It's a peek at her as a stylish woman and style-icon. LOVED this book!! Really, really love all the Why Don't You ideas included here.
Nov 22, Bryn Plus Others rated it really liked it Shelves: fashion. A short little book about Diana Vreeland's time at Harper's Bazaar, with some fascinating photographs and a selection of her 'Why Don't You?
Aug 22, Francesca Belluomini rated it it was amazing. Inspiring, as anything coming from Diana Vreeland. I find her audacity difficult to rationalize, and these "Why don't you" are timeless, they don't have a chronological setting, they were fantastic then as they are now, half a century later. It's a short book, but the material is concentrated and it needs time to be read, digested, imagined, absorbed and lived, why not. If you are inclined so, you can read it while reading other books, whenever you will pick up from, it's always a good point and Inspiring, as anything coming from Diana Vreeland.
If you are inclined so, you can read it while reading other books, whenever you will pick up from, it's always a good point and, somehow, appropriate to the moment. Dec 12, Jane added it Shelves: nonfiction-memoir. Diana Vreeland sounds like a caricature, everything that is spoofed and mocked in fashion. That said her "Why don't you? Rambling Reader rated it liked it Aug 15, Ashley rated it it was amazing May 04, Ruth B rated it it was amazing Oct 17, Desirae rated it really liked it Aug 18, Kneale Culbreath rated it it was amazing Apr 19, Mitch rated it really liked it Nov 24, Jane rated it it was ok Feb 11, Martha rated it liked it Jun 02, Miki rated it it was amazing Dec 07, Jessicak Kelly rated it liked it Aug 31, Biba rated it it was amazing Jun 23, Sarah Wolff rated it really liked it Oct 10, Sherrill rated it it was amazing Jul 20, Courtenay rated it it was amazing Jan 29, Rorie rated it it was amazing Sep 11, Kristine rated it it was amazing May 10, Kirsten rated it it was amazing Jun 27, Agnieszka rated it it was amazing May 22, Joann rated it it was amazing Oct 05, Joey rated it it was amazing May 13, Snow had spotted her dancing at the St.
Regis in a white lace Chanel dress and bolero with roses in her hair, and offered Vreeland a job as a columnist. Within a matter of years, she had become the fashion editor of Bazaar , before leaving in to become the editor-in-chief of American Vogue. Until her death in , she remained devoted, above all else, to the art of style — under any circumstances.
You have it when you have a temperature of degrees and are moaning. You radiate it. Style is, perhaps, in that class. Vreeland famously adored the colour red, and had her Vogue office painted scarlet before filling it with Rigaud candles and papering the walls with images of everything from Japanese kites to Maria Callas.
She adored monochrome in any colour, however.
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