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On the past: "I don't believe in anything before penicillin. de Diana Vreeland la preul de 99.73 lei, cu livrare prin curier oriunde n. On lettuce: "Lettuce is divine although I'm not sure it's really food." In this glittering autobiography she takes us around the world with her, revealing her obsession with fashion high and low-pink plastic poodles, for example-and dropping timeless sayings like, 'As you know, the French like the French very much.' A fabulous, witty read. All God gave the Japanese was a sense of style." She has been credited for inventing the 'fashion. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resourses-nothing!. She was a columnist at Harpers Bazaar, editor-in-chief of Vogue, and later, director of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. On the Japanese: "God was fair to the Japanese. On horses: "Horses smell much better than people-I can tell you that." On feet: "Children, naturally, are terribly aware of feet. On fashion: "I think fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world." she was the most interesting person I've met." Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count. On Coco Chanel: "She was a peasant-and a genius. What's called 'good taste' is a drug on the market.

A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika.

I expected to be underwhelmed, but I think this autobiography will stick with me. I'm a great believer in vulgarity-if it's got vitality. Arrives by Mon, May 8 Buy Empress of Fashion : A Life of Diana Vreeland. On bad taste: "Vulgarity is a very important ingredient in life. Among the things Vreeland, the grande dame of the fashion world, says: 'She had a beautiful younger sister who was her mothers favourite. a daughter.The current issue of House & Garden magazine carries an irresistible teaser, excerpts from Diana Vreeland's autobiography "D.V.," to be published in June by Alfred A. 'In her autobiography, she Vreeland talks about the fact that her mother called her her little monster,' the director recalls. 1: "DALZIEL.-On the 29th ult., at 5 Avenue de Bois de Boulogne, Paris. Date of birth confirmed by her birth notice found by Sy Scholfield in The Times, 2 October 1903, p.

Death by Heart Attack 22 August 1989 (Age 85)īirth certificate obtained by Marc Brun, dated 2 October 1903 and mistakenly stating date of birth as 29 December.

A gleeful iconoclast and daringly original thinker, she cultivated a striking sense of personal style in. In 1989 she died of a heart attack on 22 August 1989 at age 85 at Lenox Hill Hospital, on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City. editor and fashion arbiter Diana Vreeland. In 1984 Vreeland wrote her autobiography, D.V. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1964.

She worked for the fashion magazines Harper's Bazaar and Vogue and as a special consultant at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. French-American columnist and editor in the field of fashion.