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Holidays Gift Guide (9) : Diana Vreeland Memos , Giambattista Valli and Bold, Beautiful and Damned

December 13, 2013 by The CoF

Books are food for the brain and soul and choosing them as a holiday gift is just perfect. Today books are even more. They can beautifully decorate your coffee table or bureau and some special edition are pure works of art. Today on our gift list two books from Rizolli : Diana Vreeland Memos, $55 ,a look behind the scenes at Diana Vreeland’s reign as editor in chief of Vogue, in her own words. 288 pages with 50 color and black-and-white illustrations and Giambattista Valli […]

Categories: Book • Tags: Chronicle Books, Diana Vreeland, giambattista valli, Rizzoli, Shopping

DIANA VREELAND MEMOS, The Vogue Years from Rizzoli, released on October 15th, 2013

Discover Diana Vreeland in her words, in the new book from Rizzoli

October 22, 2013 by The CoF

The legendary Diana Vreeland , formerly editor in chief of Vogue, was never present at meetings with her stuff or collaborators. She communicated with them using short notes that were that dictate to her faithful secretary while smoking a cigarette. “My grandmother was somebody who inspired a lot of creative people to do their best work,” Alexander Vreeland, grandson of the late Vogue editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland. The weighty edition includes editorial notes, personal letters , archival photos and memories of Vreeland’s period at Vogue. […]

Categories: Book, Fashion, People • Tags: Alexander Vreeland, Diana Vreeland, Quotes, Rizzoli, Vogue, Women

The Kaftan: Between Past And Present

May 16, 2013 by The CoF

A caftan or kaftan is a long, loose garment with long sleeves, resembling a robe. Fabrics range from lightweight textiles for the summer months to richer velvets and brocades. Traditionally made with silk or cotton, caftans are frequently adorned with colorful patterns, and many individuals wear them with a coordinating belt or sash. It first appeared in Persia around 600 B.C.The Kaftan trend have re-emerged throughout the fashion history many times; in the fifties where it was first introduced to the […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Art, Beatles, culture, Design, Diana Vreeland, History, Kaftan, Morocco, Talitha Getty, Yves Saint Laurent

Diana Vreeland’s Apartment : The Garden From Hell

March 12, 2013 by The CoF

” There are several things about the apartment that accord well enough with anybody’s expectations. Of course the “garden in hell” turns out to be neither remotely hellish nor particularly horticultural. But quite aside from the flamboyant scarlet-flowered cotton of the walls and curtains of the living room, there is undeniably an abundance of the color red: red carpets, red-lacquered doors, closet linings, and picture frames. True to form, when Vreeland consented to have her rooms photographed for the present article, […]

Categories: Architecture, Design • Tags: Alexander Liberman, Architectural Digest, Art, Christian Bérard, Diana Vreeland, Home and Garden, New York

Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland

December 17, 2012 by The CoF

As fashion editor of Harper’s Bazaar, she wrote the popular “Why Don’t You?” feature, which inspired two New Yorker parodies and endless imitations. She also suggested the iconic Popover to Claire McCardell and helped put the designer on the map. As editor in chief of Vogue, she celebrated the youthquake of the Sixties and pushed editorial fashion fantasy further than it had ever gone before. As special consultant to the Metropolitan Museum, she transformed traditionally dull museum shows of clothes […]

Categories: Beauty, Book, Design, Fashion • Tags: Carmel Snow, Claire McCardell, Coco Chanel, Daisy Fellowes, Diana, Diana Vreeland, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue

The Quotable Diana Vreeland

December 17, 2012 by The CoF

Diana Vreeland in Paris in 1971 – Photo By Christian Avril Diana Vreeland was articulate and witty, with an unusual gift for the unexpected, striking aphorism (“Pink is the navy blue of India”; “Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola”; Coco Chanel “had the expression of a baby bull dressed like a Russian sailor”; “As you know, a well-kept invalid lasts forever.”) She said, in creating a magazine or a museum show, “I’m looking for something else. I’m […]

Categories: Beauty, Fashion, People • Tags: Chris Ware, Coco Chanel, Diana Vreeland, Elsa Maxwell, Harper's Bazaar, Marilyn Monroe, Mick Jagger, Vogue

15 Things You Didn’t Know About Diana Vreeland

December 13, 2012 by The CoF

The legendary fashion editor and subject of new film Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel in all her fabulousness. By Lisa Immordino Vreeland. When I married Alexander Vreeland, I never imagined I would spend three years documenting his legendary grandmother — magazine editor, tastemaker, fashion icon — but I was driven by the idea of honouring her uniquely creative genius. During her 26-year tenure at US Harper’s BAZAAR (1936–62), Diana didn’t just clothe women; she presented them with aspirations, ideas and the possibility of a […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: British Empire, Diana Vreeland, Harper's Bazaar, Joel Schumacher, New York City, Richard Avedon, Wallis Simpson