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Diana Vreeland2001

(Why Don't You ... ?: Diana Vreeland Bazaar Years)

Bazaar Years

by John Esten

"Why Don't You . . . <BR>tie black tulle bows on your wrists?<BR>have a yellow satin bed entirely quilted in butterflies?<BR>remember how delicious champagne cocktails are after tennis or golf? Indifferent champagne can be used for these." <BR>For more than half a century, Diana Vreeland, doyenne of American fashion, beguiled, awed, astonished, and was adored by almost anyone who created or wore clothes. <BR>Irresistible and flamboyant, socialite Mrs. T. Reed Vreeland began her now legendary twenty-five-year tenure at "Harper's Bazaar writing a column of audacious advice: extravagant ideas that helped redefine American women and twentieth-century fashion. Her commentary created a fashion frenzy when it began appearing in "Harper's Bazaar in 1936. Her ideas were simultaneously...

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