“There’s only one very good life and that’s
the life you know you want
and you make it yourself.”
- Diana Vreeland
Photo by Santi Visalli, 1982.
Showing posts with label Diana Vreeland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diana Vreeland. Show all posts
12 October, 2015
29 July, 2013
13 April, 2013
What About?
Diana Vreeland always had her dollar bills and her tissues ironed before putting them in her handbag.
The pillows in her home were infused with perfume via hypodermic needles.
She rarely left the house before noon, and she often conducted serious business from her tub.
She ate the same lunch every day: a whole-wheat peanut-butter-and-marmalade sandwich, washed down with scotch. "Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity," she said.
Diana's signature color was red, but she never found the perfect shade, which was, according to her, "the color of a child's cap in any Renaissance portrait.
15 September, 2012
12 July, 2012
Magister Dixit:
“The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.”
- Diana Vreeland
19 February, 2012
Home Sweet Home
Diana Vreeland lived in "one of the most attractive atmospheres that I know. An over-crowded Turkish seraglio on a rather elegant boat. Books, bibelots, calculated clutter, personal pictures (among them, sketches by Augustus John, Bébé Bérard and Cecil Beaton of herself) and treasures, many Scotch snuffboxes in horn and silver, are massed on tables, walls, & shelves looking as if one could never get around to seeing them all. A long-stemmed anemone stands in a long-stemmed vase. There are oriental divans against the wall covered with inviting cushions, and she dines at a table pushed against a divan with bright cushions propped behind her back. She presides on a big Indian print-covered sofa like a sultan’s favourite, before and after dinner, with everyone gathered on small chairs at her feet. She lives in an atmosphere of informal luxury confined in crowded quarters, in an aura of intimacy and mystery.”
- Bettina Ballard
01 February, 2012
Magister Dixit:
- Diana Vreeland
10 January, 2012
17 December, 2011
07 December, 2011
Why Don't You?
"I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering."
- Diana Vreeland
30 November, 2011
10 October, 2011
Magister Dixit:
"What's extraordinary is the way everything modern fits in with everything old. It's all a matter of combining. There's no beginning or end there — only continuity."
- Diana Vreeland
15 September, 2011
28 August, 2011
19 August, 2011
Yes, Why?
"Why don’t you wear, like the Duchess of Kent, three enormous diamond stars arranged in your hair front?"
- Diana Vreeland
14 June, 2011
20 May, 2011
19 April, 2011
15 March, 2011
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