Reinterpret classic jeans in the form of a denim skirt for summer's high temps.ģ) 'Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playĢ) 'Blue jeans are the most beautiful thing since the gondola.' Denim is everywhere this season. You can see and feel everything in clothes.' In other words, celebrate the season's new and exciting fashion in your own way. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. Here, the best Diana Vreeland quotes to live by for summer.ġ) 'Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events.

Carmel Snow, Editor-in-Chief during the Vreeland days and mentor to DV lived by the motto 'Elegance with a dash of daring,' which shows in the pages of BAZAAR today. She was often referred to as the Empress of Fashion. Her memorable 'Why Don't You' column is still celebrated today-as is her unique vision. As red was her favorite color, she commissioned interior designer Billy Baldwin to create an all-red living room for her. Outside the office, the pillows in her home were infused with perfume via hypodermic needles, she requested all of her dollar bills to be ironed before they reached her wallet and her apartment was the stuff of legends. In her years at Harper's BAZAAR, she served as a columnist and later Fashion Editor from 1936 to 1962. Vreeland changed the American fashion industry when it was going through a dull phase.Diana Vreeland lived an extravagant life. She joined Vogue as an editor-in-chief before she became a consultant with the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vreeland ran her column ‘Why Don’t You?’, which made her a fashion guru amongst the American housewives of the 60s, for about 26 years. On the top of it, getting married to a classy and even wealthier banker opened her to the kind of exposure that came handy in her career.

Being a daughter of a wealthy socialite only helped Vreeland to cultivate the poise that she taught her readers for the rest of her life. Vreeland was discovered by editor Carmel Snow who gave her the chance to flourish in the field that had been her darling since the time she was growing up - fashion. She was known for her gifted language, her perception on global fashion, her ability to coin terms and phrases that immediately caught the attention of her readers and painting a stunning picture of fashion and fantasy, in relation to the ever changing social scenario, with her words. Born as Diana Dalziel, Diana Vreeland was an American socialite, fashionista, columnist and editor associated with topnotch fashion magazines like ‘Harper’s Bazaar’ and ‘Vogue’.

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