[13] From 1936 until her resignation, Diana Vreeland ran a column for Harper's Bazaar called "Why Don't You?,"full of random, imaginative suggestions. The ex-coal shovelers son embodied the periods very image of the romantic idle-rich gentleman. Want to Read. She was the eldest daughter of American socialite mother, Emily Key Hoffman (1876-1928) and British stockbroker father, Frederick Young Dalziel (1868-1960). is said to be based on Vreelands life. She was editor-in-chief from 1963 until 1971. There are several things about the apartment that accord well enough with anybodys expectations. 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. I saw enormous amounts of trouble.Diana shocked me at the time by something she said to me: Alex, after all, this is only entertainment. Right then I knew something was deeply, deeply wrong. What I did see were beautiful, tiny white feetimmaculately pedicured, with scarlet toenails., Though Diana Dalziel was always proud to have been born with what illustrator Joe Eula calls little Chinese-princess feet, and in Paris (1903 is the most likely date), there wasnt much else she felt innately blessed about. She was so big in her way of doing it. Nonetheless, the new appointment had the desired effect on Vogue. Created and overseen by her estate, DianaVreeland.com[34] is dedicated to her work and career, presenting her accomplishments and influence, and revealing how and why she achieved her notoriety and distinction. This is presumably because flora and fauna equally share two of the appealing qualities which she especially respects in human beings: innate elegance and natural grace. However at the grand old age of thirty-four, bored and frustrated she desired a career. Fashion, Real, Life Changing. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Before major editors like Anna WIntour, Grace Coddington, and Grace Mirabella, there was Diana Vreeland. All rights reserved. Thank you for including my photo on the Style Nudge, so exciting. Its focal point is a capacious sofa with an impressive rampart of cushions. Feeling slighted and underpaid, Vreeland locked her sights on Vogue. She just had these magic hands, says Lillian Groueff, who modeled for Vreeland before the war. #brightcol, Looking back on 2022 Heres to an even bett, 200 Trunks, 200 Visionaries: The Exhibition in New, The Laura Geller Holiday Soire Celebrating 25 Ye, 12 Days of Christmas Inspiration Diana Vreeland (September 29, 1903 - August 22, 1989) was a French-American fashion columnist and editor. Perhaps one day well get to travel there again, you never know. No one wants to do it themselves-they want direction and to follow a leader!'"[30]. Dalziel (a Scottish name pronounced Dee-el) was a stockbroker who never managed to make much money but who somehow always lived rather wella skill he passed on to his daughter along with his prominent nose. Her custom made T-straps dated from the Bazaar era, Talley says. Food, flowers, incense, and candlesadding to the permanent profusion of pictures, snuff boxes, and pillows (hypodermically injected with scent)proliferated in the res rooms, while vodka and conversation flowed. Discover Bon Mots, the new book of Diana Vreelands quotes. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel: Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Frdric Tcheng. Once, I came back from vacation badly sunburned, with a bad permanentand I had to be photographed by Louise Dahl-Wolfe. Exaggeration is my only reality.. Diana Vreeland had a troubled childhood; her mother often told her she was ugly. She would have made the best Miss Lonely-hearts.) Surpassing Hovingsand everyone elsesexpectations, Vreeland mounted 14 exhibits over 14 years and became one of my top curators, Hoving says. Snow glowed like a planet. One of Vreelands most notorious contributions to Bazaar was her Why Dont You column, an escapist tip sheet extravagantly out of whack with Depression-era reality. Her mother used to refer to her as my little ugly duckling. She liked people who werent scared of her. (Alexandra went on to excel as a sportswoman at Bryn Mawr, later marrying a Scot, Sir Alexander Kinloch, and the painter Cuthbert Orde.) She never made any bones about it. CDN Price: $55.00. Mrs. Dalziel may not have entertained Vernon and Irene Castle, Diaghilev, Ida Rubinstein, and Nijinsky in her Paris drawing room (despite Vreelands claims in D.V. More like concrete! she goaded the Costume Institutes Harold Koda as he struggled around the clock to second-guess her vision of a coiffure for a mannequin in the museums Eighteenth-Century Woman show. True to form, when Vreeland consented to have her rooms photographed for the present article, she threw in a couple of quotable remarks for good measure. An enduring legend of a notoriously vicious and ephemeral world, the Paris-loving Anglo-American had a magical life as a heralded columnist and editor . [25], In 1960, John F. Kennedy became president and Vreeland advised First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in matters of style. Vreeland was like the most marvelous comet, Cond Nast editorial advisor Leo Lerman says, and Mrs. Wash your bonds childs hair in dead champagne as they do in France? Beauty certainly appears in . there was such competition to go to her house for dinner. Her jungle-red apartment at 550 Park accommodated about eight for dinner, but the number of guests was the only small about a Vreeland evening. I can never get painters to mix it for me. In October 1996, Mary Louise Wilson portrayed Vreeland in a one-woman play called Full Gallop, which she had written together with Mark Hampton. Vreeland was the eldest daughter of an American socialite mother, Emily Key Hoffman (18761928), and a British stockbroker[6] father, Frederick Young Dalziel (18681960). [citation needed], Vreeland's family emigrated to the United States at the outbreak of World War I, moving to 15 East 77th Street in New York, where they became prominent society figures. As World War I was brewing, her family emigrated to New York City. Creative fashion was not her strength. She had an almost religious fixation on certain things, Penn said. By signing up you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. [12] Its editor, Carmel Snow, had been so impressed with Vreeland's style and attire that she asked her to work at the magazine. Diana Vreeland was the apotheosis of the fashion editor. "Memos tells the story of this transformation through fascinating and witty personal correspondence, many containing amendments in Vreeland's own distinctive and fantastic handwriting. I did come back with an important essay on Gypsies. When he went back to Vreeland to explain that the Gypsy queen had eluded him, she with fake surprise asked me, What are you talking about? I had taken hook, line, and sinker. Born in Paris, her family moved to New York where she studied dance under a Russian ballet master, and - legend has is - rode horses . (1984), the Vreeland Holy Writs. So mea cupla. Cond Nast instead exercised the other alternative and fired her. Twenty-five years as fashion editor of Harpers Bazaar for the most part under the redoubtable Carmel Snow, gave her, along with some invaluable human as well as professional experience, just enough rope to achieve at least a local prewar reputation for way-out, offbeat ideas. They knew her a good deal better than John did. It was the best America ever did. She became the queen of New York society, says one of her Warhol-set friends. It is said of many people, but for Diana Vreeland it was true: she remains fashion's once and future queen. She has a way of speaking of plants as though they were animals, and vice versa. As New York apartments goor wentit is averagely modest in size: principally comprising an entrance hall, L-shaped living room (half living area, half dining area-cum-library), and two . Vreeland was portrayed in the film Infamous (2006) by Juliet Stevenson. Insatiably curious, she relished the apocalyptic atmosphere of Student 54 but remained as much voyeur as reveler. [5], Born Diana Dalziel in Paris, France in 1903, she lived at 5 avenue du Bois-de-Boulogne (known as Avenue Foch post-World War I). Diana Vreeland. Alexander Liberman, the editorial director of Cond Nast, confirms the story: Carmel Snowwhom, incidentally, Cond Nast had always intended to make editor in chief of Vogueunderstood that you needed an older, experienced editor to control Diana. But by 1960 there was no one more experienced than Vreeland. In the 2011 book "Damned" by Chuck Palahniuk, the main character (Madison Spencer) receives a pair of high heels from the character Babette. They moved to Brewster New York where they began raising their two sons. At 16 she started with the over-the-top make up, Hughes says. And she announced, Im going to relax now., Vreeland took to her bed, talked on the phone, let her hair go white, developed a morbid curiousity about Ivana Trump, had books read to herand recovered her family. The secret of her success as an editor was timing, says photographer David Bailey, part of the British waveincluding the Beatles and Twiggythat crashed upon the pages of Vogue. Carmel told the Hearsts when she retired, Dont allow her to be editor in chief, a veteran of Bazaar says. She worked for the fashion magazines Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, being the editor-in-chief of Vogue. Growing up in affluance she later married the banker Thomas Reed Vreeman with whom she had 2 sons. She addressed the needs, the looks, of the real, modern American woman.. The official Diana Vreeland website was launched in September 2011. Of photographs there is no end. We are on the same page with DV. Cherie, From the found materials, Alexander published the book, Diana Vreeland The Modern Woman, The Bazaar Years 1963-1962 with the help of Rizzoli International Publications. Of her subsequent period as editor in chief of Vogue, beginning in 1962, the least that can be said is that it proved she had not only the will to be original but the courage to be provocative. The prevailing feeling is one of warmth and smoothness, comfort and privacy: an interior ambience so subtly, unemphatically strong and pervasive that one is utterly obliviousor at most, only casually, sporadically awareof the existence of the teeming city beyond the windows. Thanks to Harpers Bazaar editor-in-chief Carmel Snow, who noticed her wearing Chanel, Diana began her fashion legacy at the premier womens fashion magazine, as its first fashion editor. Vreeland began her publishing career in 1936 as columnist for Harper's Bazaar. The quirky and ridiculous suggestions included the following: Why Dont You? [28], According to some sources, hurt that she was passed over for promotion at Harper's Bazaar in 1957, she joined Vogue in 1962. Beware of the legend! Diana Vreeland once cautioned the photographer Horst. She loved to dance for charities, Astor says. Mom had a pair of trousers made of it.. Next thing I know, she making cracks about Yellow Russians. I took her to see Caligula with Debbie Harry, says one Warhol associate. Diana Vreeland famously called her beloved red living room "the garden of hell" She 'discovered' Twiggy, introduced the world to bikinis and, as the boss of 1960s Vogue, paved the way for every . The Diana Vreeland Estate is administered by her grandson, Alexander Vreeland, Frederick's son. When Paris fashion opened after the war, that was the end of it., Expanding her sphere of influence socially as well as professionally, Vreeland cultivated the White Russian, Jewish, and European society figures and artists who turned New York into the worlds most vital and cosmopolitan capital during and after the war. A former Vogue fashion editor, she was responsible for hiring the great art director Alexey Brodovitch and for promoting or launching the careers of such artistic and literary luminaries as Richard Avedon, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Marcel Verts, and Truman Capote. After their honeymoon, the Vreelands moved to Brewster, New York, and raised their two sons, staying there until 1929. But she later became editor-in-chief of American Vogue and one of the country's most revered fashion icons. One day Mr. Vanderbilt was making a tour of his line with an inspector. Vreeland herself wrote in D.V., I met him on the Fourth of July at a weekend party in Saratoga. The age of Diana is thirty-eight. A look behind the scenes at Diana Vreeland's Vogue, showing the legendary editor in chief in her own inimitable words. My husband kept that connection going, but I wasnt big enough to call her. A garden in hell.". My eyes have grown tired from looking at too many beautiful things, she told a friend. She had in mind a school of fashion based in Paris, like Cubism or Impressionism. Vreeland once asked fashion editor Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, What is the name of that Seventh Avenue designer who hates me so? Legion, he replied. But my brother and I saw her a lot at the end. By Charlotte Sutherland-Hawes. Reeds parents had held higher ambitions for their son. She worked for the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar and as editor-in-chief at Vogue, later becoming a special consultant to the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.She was named on the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1964. It helps you get up in the morning. Diana Vreeland (September 29, 1903 - August 22, 1989) was a French-American fashion columnist and editor. Shes an adjective as in This paper-white narcissus is very Diana Vreeland. She discovered that outr makeup and smart clothes diverted attention from her imperfect features. Though he worked in banking and also for other businesses, including the perfumers Rigaud, his real vocation was, in Fred Hughess words, being the chatelain of the house. During her absence, Theodore Rousseau, chief curator of the Metropolitan Museum, proposed to Thomas Hoving, the museums director, that they appoint Vreeland special consultant to the Costume Institute, which was then an obscure division of the Met frequented mostly by fashion designers and scholars. Now Im interested. I didnt think Vreeland would last more than six months.. She ended her life as she started itit the bosom of her family. She discovered in her great-grandchildren Reed and Victoria her biggest source of pleasure. Plenty of Wops was her reply. Joe Bidens State of the Union Speech Backed Republicans Into a Corner, The president put GOP threats to cut Social Security and Medicare on public display, prompting a wave of jeers from House Republicans, with one outright accusing Biden of being a liar.. What do you think of the Soviet Union? the interpreter politely inquired. One of my earliest memories was of mom taking rumba lessons in the living room. The Vreelands lived more luxuriously than they could ever afford again. Arianna, We sat in the first row. Fast forward to1922, she was featured twice in Vogue as a well-dressed socialite, and the next year, was presented to society as a debutante. How I adored Paris.". [23], In 1955, the Vreelands moved to a new apartment, which Diana had Billy Baldwin decorate entirely in red. The dynamic equilibrium at Bazaar was upset when Carmel Snow retired in 1957. As New York apartments goor wentit is averagely modest in size: principally comprising an entrance hall, L-shaped living room (half living area, half dining area-cum-library), and two bedroomsher own, and her husbands. Look at the lips, she said. [8] A week before Diana's wedding, The New York Times reported that her mother had been named corespondent in the divorce proceedings of Sir Charles Ross and his second wife, Patricia. Early life. ), but she was, like her daughter, crazy about dancing. /// photography by george platt lyons via, /// photography by george platt lynes, via. Vreeland was sent to dancing school as a pupil of Michel Fokine, the only Imperial Ballet master ever to leave Russia, and later of Louis Harvy Chalif. Only the headgear. What should I do with the Italian collections this season? photographer David Bailey once telexed her from Rome. [9] In 1935, her husband's job brought them back to New York, where they lived for the remainder of their lives. Hi! Crafted by perfumer Pascal Gaurin in partnership with the legendary Vogue editor's grandson, Alexander Vreeland, Staggeringly Beautiful celebrates Vreeland's take on beauty and the places she found it. Vreeland enjoyed the 1960s enormously because she felt that uniqueness was being celebrated. H. Edward VreelandBrewster, NY - H. Edward Vreeland, a 60-year resident of Brewster, NY, died peacefully at Waterview Hills Nursing Home on Wednesday, April 24, 2019. World events concerned her only as they affected style. [32] Artist Greer Lankton created a life-size portrait doll of Vreeland that is on display in the Costume Institute's library. They abound in every room and stand on almost every available piece of furniture. She rarely left the house before noon, and she often conducted serious business from her tub. She says, "I got these from Diana Vreeland. And when artists such as Ren Bouch portrayed her, they could get away with rendering only the lips, hairdo, and hands. Lisa Immordino Vreeland is breathing new life into Diana Vreeland's legacy. Then, more often than not, she wanders off herself to the dining areathe perpendicular strokefor a tte--tte with a single friend. All my life Ive pursued the perfect red, Vreeland said. [22] Paramount's 1957 movie musical Funny Face featured a characterMaggie Prescott as portrayed by Kay Thompsonbased on Vreeland. She was a tremendous inspiration to American sportswear, says a Bazaar colleague. Graphic from @daily_sleeper Instagram page. Instead of which, after the Vreelands settled permanently in New York in 1937, she unexpectedly took off on a career in international fashion, the trajectory of which has continuedwith an astonishing recent explosion of accumulated velocityto the present day. @chan_in, Happy 10th Anniversary to My Blog, The Age of Grac, Bright Colors in January Bruce D. McClung: Lady in the Dark Biography of a Musical (2007), p. 10. View ALL 7 Photos. Photo credit: George Platt Lyons Diana Vreeland circa 1955 EXCLUSIVE American fashion editor Diana Vreeland (c.1903- 1989) wearing a tube top and mini skirt, holding a leopard print purse . Diana knew that she fit into that tradition.. [27], In spite of being extremely successful, Diana Vreeland was paid a relatively small salary by the Hearst Corporation, which owned Harper's Bazaar. Diana Vreeland (September 29, 1903 - August 22, 1989) was a French-American columnist and editor in the field of fashion. Everyone else was still wearing those loose, skirted bathing suit from Peck & Peck.. We all had the feeling that wed die for her. At an embassy party she sidled up to Jonathan Miller, the British director, and inquired, Tell me, Dr. Miller, what is your Holy Grail? To a dinner companion who had been complaining that her issues of Vogue had grown to outr for his wife, Vreeland finally said, exasperated, Dont you know? Diana and husband, Thomas Reed Vreeland. She was born in Paris, the daughter of a Scottish father and an American mother, brought up in a privileged between-the-wars European world where elegance went hand in hand with intelligence. What happened between Malcolm McDowell and the horse? Free shipping for many products! Her force of character, her glamour, her intelligence, her innate sense of elegance and her exuberance energized all those who met her., Above & below, Diane at work in her Harpers Bazaar office, Lillian Bassman, Painter & Photographer, Diana lived for imagination ruled by discipline, and created a totally new profession. . I gave her the warning, Liberman continues. The consortium of magnanimous friends (who may also have paid her maid Yvonnes salary) was rumored to include Jane Engelhard, Jayne Wrightsman, Babe Paley, and Jacqueline Onassiswomen whom Vreeland had advised in the past, on style as well as on personal matters. Irving Penn says, Shed use a kind of shorthand communication and youd come to whatever conclusion you could. Diana Vreeland is a rare contemporary character: a human find, rewarding for being both unique and authentic. His other son Alexander, launched a Diana Vreeland fragrance line, and its latest perfume Full Gallop. Jessica had been a manager. He planned menus, organized dinner parties, and ran the household. There is a very pretty red-lacquered Chinese desk not far from the bed, but it is all but submerged in memorabilia, like her dressing table. Photo by Richard Avendon. I went back to Carmel Snow and said, 'I can't work with that woman. Although both S.J. They kept a Bugatti and driver, both of which accompanied them on their jaunts to the Continent. She was known for being a Journalist. Diana Vreeland. They found in a compelling, camp combination of sibyl and dinosaur. Then Rousseau told me a group of people had raised the money for her salary for two years. "[14] According to Vreeland, "The one that seemed to draw the most attention was [] "[Why Don't You] [w]ash your blond child's hair in dead champagne, as they do in France?" . stickman swing cool math; ufc gym plantation; how to send certified mail with return receipt; bronwydd house porth history People, Giving, Want. An acquaintance says of one affair he knew about, Reed went for the nearest thing he could get to Diana: Cordelia Biddle Robertson. The Vreelands apartment at 400 Park Avenue and their country house in Brewster, both decorated with the help of the fashionable George Stacey, became Euro-American havens for a confraternity of worldly souls. Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Diana Vreeland. 2 "You gotta have style. Diana Vreeland Portrait of Diana Vreeland by George Hoyningen-Huene in the late 1930s. August 20, 2020 1950s, architecture & construction, celebrity & famous people, New York, work of art. Diana Vreeland was born in France on September 29, 1903. I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity. June 3, 2022 . Dec. 15, 2002. She worked for the fashion magazines Harper's Bazaar and Vogue , being the editor-in-chief of the latter, and as a special consultant at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The story read, "Such motors as these accelerate the social whirl. Even Dianas detractors find her uxorial devotion to Reed touching. February 17, 2015 12:16pm. Then one day she said, Where is Elsa? Elsa was a maid. In that 18th-century wig, she looked just as she did at the end of her life with silver hair. The Hoffmans, according to Hughes, arrived in Colonial Maryland from Germany to fight in the Revolution. Ive been up since dawn walking. Only where money was concerned did her discipline falter. Both were also kindly, good-looking, tall, and patricianinstinctive gallants but lackluster businessmen. Later, the clerk quotes a passage that reads "That season we were loaded with pizazz. Or assign me to go to India to photograph white tigers for a spread that would never run. But of more significance than runway budgets, where her fate was concerned, were the changing times. VREELAND, Diana (b. c. 1903 in Paris, France; d. 22 August 1989 in New York City), legendary fashion editor, author, and arbiter of taste.The date of Vreeland's birth is somewhat obscure; various sources record it as taking place in 1901, 1903, and 1906. Servants never stayed with my grandmother., As a debutante, Diana threw herself into society with a vengeance. In January 1922, she was featured in the pages of her future magazine, Vogue, in a roundup of socialites and their cars. Shed admired what I had onit was a white lace Chanel dress with a bolero, and I had roses in my hairand she asked me if Id like a job. Snow wrote in her memoirs, I had been looking for a replacement for Daisy Fellowes [from] the new world of the International Set. Vreeland accepted because she sorely needed the income. It's too difficult sometimes to keep one's head up, and today I am on my knees and just longing for this divorce to go through as the possible cost is tremendous, the late royal wrote in one letter. Her instincts about fashion were so infallible, the story goes, that she would doze off at the collections only to awaken when the right dress passed by. I know a jump cut when I see one!, Youthful companionship and up-to-the-minute diversions made potent but ultimately ineffective elixirs. They went back to America during World War and settled in New York. She was born Diana Dalziel in Paris in 1903, the daughter of British stockbroker Frederick Young Dalziel and Emily Key Hoffman, an American. Eleanor Dwight's biography reveals a lifetime of ambition, creativity, and eccentricity, creating an all-encompassing picture of legendary fashion editor Diana Vreeland. Warned by Cond Nast management to reduce spending, Vreeland, Bailey recalls, would cable me in England to tell me to watch the moneyand afterwards speak to me on the phone for two hours to see if I got her cable. had been shot, she retorted, Well, we cant use Lady Bird in the magazine. Kenneth Jay Lane says, I remember her son Tim once told me, Mom had no sense of right or wrongto her things were either interesting or uninteresting., Around 1937, the Vreelands moved back to New York. There are family photographs; photographs of old friends, including the Duke of Windsor in a kilt which he had donned, exceptionally, at Diana Vreelands insistence and with the duchesss encouragement; photographs of colleagues: Snow, Marie-Louise Bousquet, Margaret Case; photographs of women whose beauty has appealed to her, with a life-enhancing, eye-refreshing contingent of the young. Brewster, NY - H. Edward Vreeland, a 60-year resident of Brewster, NY, died peacefully at Waterview Hills Nursing Home on Wednesday, April 24, 2019. diana vreeland brewster nygirondins bordeaux players. Diana became estranged from her mother in 1929 after a societal scandal implicated her mother in an affair. The ensuing scandal estranged Vreeland from her mother, who died in September 1928 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Vreeland said that she was paid $18,000 a year from 1936 with a $1,000 raise, finally, in 1959. Although she died in 1989, she can claim more acolytes today than ever before, who reverently pore over old magazines, study old photographs and quote from her books Allure (1980) and D.V. Renewed, and elevated to her most splendid perch yet, the bird of paradise had risen from the ashes. Ad Choices, Long before her death in 1989, Diana Vreeland had passed into the realm of cultural icons. Diana, however, preferred to pass the season with her maternal grandmother, Charlotte Hoffman, at her Katonah, New York, house, the Villa Diana. Fashion icon, editor, and columnist who worked for Harper's Bazaar and was Editor-in-Chief of Vogue from 1963 to 1971. . Diana Vreeland, Alexander Vreeland (Editor), Polly Mellon (Contributor), Grace Mirabella (Contributor) 4.19 avg rating 95 ratings published 2013. Among the paintings and drawings are pencil portraits of Reed and of their sons by Jean Oberl; and an oil painting of their elder son by Nora Auric, a surprise birthday present. Just outside the front door hangs a beguiling portrait of Vreeland in the bloom of youth, painted by William Acton in Florence in 1934. Diana did something with those hands, and suddenly the hair was all pulled together. A style blog based on a fifty-something Baby Boomer doing her best to age gracefully. That same year . When shoes were rationed, she put every foot in America in ballet slippers. The true gold standard of fashion and style credibility, Mrs. Vreeland is responsible for launching many iconic careers . 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Diana Vreeland (September 29, 1903 - August 22, 1989) was a French-American columnist and editor. In 2010, Alexander discovered in his grandparents former home in Brewster, New York in the attic, well kept and preserved documentation from his grandmothers years at Harpers Bazaar. Perelman and the comedienne Spivy parodied it, they barely needed to tamper with such Vreelandisms as Why Dont You have a furry elk-hide trunk for the back of your car? and Why Dont You twist [you childs] pigtails round her ears like macaroons?. In the coming weeks, a documentary titled "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has . Since 1971, as special consultant to the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum, she has gone one better and deeper and acquired fame. Free and open company data on New York (US) company DIANA VREELAND LLC (company number 3846596), 233 E 31ST ST, APT 2, 420 LEXINGTON AVENUE,SUITE 805, NY, NY, 10016. . Once, she said in Paris, Penn, the most important thing here is the buttonhole. I laughed.