ALLURE
By Diana Vreeland
‘Allure is some thing that exists’, Diana Vreeland said, ‘It is some thing around you, like a perfume or a scent, it is like memory, it pervades.’ Diana Vreeland was not only a fashion editor of Harper’s Bazaar and editor inn chief of Vogue or almost a decade and was also the curator of the Metropolitan Museum of arts costume institute.
She inspired the world of fashion for over 50 years until her death in 1989. This book is Vreeland’s personal selections of 164 images by some of the last century’s greatest photographers – among them are: Horst, De Meyer, Avedon, Beaton, Penn, and Steichen. Capturing the people and events that gave shape to the culture of an era, they feature personalities including: Garbo, Nureyev, Callas, and Queen Mary, the duchess of Windsor, Audrey Hepburn, and Josephine Baker. Vreeland goes far beyond them into the imaginative, gossipy world she knew so well.
By Diana Vreeland
‘Allure is some thing that exists’, Diana Vreeland said, ‘It is some thing around you, like a perfume or a scent, it is like memory, it pervades.’ Diana Vreeland was not only a fashion editor of Harper’s Bazaar and editor inn chief of Vogue or almost a decade and was also the curator of the Metropolitan Museum of arts costume institute.
She inspired the world of fashion for over 50 years until her death in 1989. This book is Vreeland’s personal selections of 164 images by some of the last century’s greatest photographers – among them are: Horst, De Meyer, Avedon, Beaton, Penn, and Steichen. Capturing the people and events that gave shape to the culture of an era, they feature personalities including: Garbo, Nureyev, Callas, and Queen Mary, the duchess of Windsor, Audrey Hepburn, and Josephine Baker. Vreeland goes far beyond them into the imaginative, gossipy world she knew so well.
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