I cannot believe that I am the only queen on this forum that worships this book. I have read it about once a year for the last 7 or 8 years, and never tire of Ms Vreeland"s amazing take on the world. Her imagery and descriptions are so lush and paint such a perfect picture of how she percieved the million things that passed before her eyes in her very fascinating life. If you have not ever gotten your hands on a copy of this now out of print auto biography of the late great doyenne of both Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, I urge you to devour this "easy read" in an afternoon. It is not so much a journal, but verbal flash pictures from Diana Vreelands early years as an affluent child in Paris, and then New York. Her life a a bohemian debutante living life on the fringe, and then her life as a wife, mother and finally powerful working woman in the color splashed fashion scene of the 60's and 70's. Her writing is brilliant. I recently day tripped to Fire Island and treated myself to cracking open my copy of DV for the train ride. I was as taken by her stories and views of the world as I was the first time I opened the book so many years ago.

Sweetie, I saw that book in someone's office just yesterday, and thought, "I should read that." Now your sparkling review has made it a certainty. I'll have to track one down. Do you remember the scene in Unzipped (or maybe an outtake?) of Isaac Mizrahi tooling around town in a limo with Diana? They were both so brilliant together in those scenes that night out, feeding off each other's oddness...

Thank you!
"DV" is gorgeous. I've only read it twice (or maybe 3 times) but it has, along with "From A to B and back again" -the Andy Warhol book, made me who I am today.
(NO comments from Messy-You-Know-Who OR Nancy Isla!)
I LOVE the ending of "DV". Genius.
Her husband Reed must have been pretty amazing as well.
Did you ever see her book "Alure"? It's very rare now. (I saw it last year for $800.00) Amazing.
We have a copy if you want to browse...
but you can't check it out!

And who are you anyway big guy?
Nancy, wanna help me with this?

Do not just read it, Michael, memorize it!

"The first thing to do, my love, is to arrange to be born in Paris."

THANKS, BEE-YOTCH!

After reading this forum I ordered "DV" from Amazon.com late yesterday afternoon (normal delivery, typically 3-5 business days). I even mentioned it to Daddy last night that I'd ordered it.

To my shock the book arrived first thing this morning. I've never gotten anything that fast from Amazon before. Guess that means I was meant to have it.

I need to read this, all this talk has me dying. Daddy, I noticed 2 different copies of Allure are on ebay right now, either they are reprints or someone does not know how rare the books they are selling are.

Don't know but it was in Bergdorf's for $800.

All that aside...
It's a beautiful book and really shows why DV was so major.

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Oh Daddy...$800 at Bergdorf's...well..Duh..
Everything at Bergdorfs is $800. I bought an eyeliner pencil there that normally cost $12 at Mac ( which is overly marked up to begin with) but at Bergies it was $24. But I do like their window displays. And as for Ms. Vreeland, I have photos in my archives that will make you pee.I took them during the 70's in NYC when she was still walking around and could be found at Studio 54 so many nights. I promise to post them as soon as I pull them.

Oh, don't bother Bobby...
I have one here.

Wow...I think you are mistaken Daddy..That is Diana's sister....Verna Vreeland..I remember the night she showed up at J60. She is indeed the "prettier" one.

Hon,
Wake up!!!!
Where the hell do you think Zac got the idea for the dress in the first place...
MR. KEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Zac used to come to "Jackie 60" when he was 14!
(Alba used to bring him)
I knew he was young but he recently told me he was only 14 when he started coming.
Gorgeous!
Anyway, he grew up watching YOUR shows
IN MR. KEN OUTFITS!!!!!
He's doing YOU!
I think he owes you one.

Oh...
and Bobby,
You're right.
That is Verna Vreeland.
Sorry.

And speaking of fashion fierceness...

Last night I DJ'ed for "The Best Of The Best Dressed List" party. They had alot of famous dresses on display.
(Jackie Kennedy's Adolfo suit, Liza's Halston, Marlena Dietrich, Audrey Hepburn... etc. etc.)
Anyway, they had this dress of Coco Chanel's. She was tiny!
It looked like a doll's dress. She must have been 3 feet tall. I couldn't believe it.
Such a giant monster in such a small package.

mmm...Coco Chanel. I was just perfume shopping for my mama for mother's day, and was stuck on Coco Chanel. Smells SO INCREDIBLE. Just gorgeous. I settled on something else, more flowery, for my mom. But if anyone wanted to pick up a bottle of that for moi, well... "why don't you?"

Coco's Main Ingredients:
French angelica, Bulgarian Rose,
Spice Island clove bud,
Indian jasmine, Caribbean cascarida,
Frangipani, Mimosa.

NO CIVET CAT GLANDS!

You can look at the "Allure" book at the "Egoiste" magazine store down in Soho... they used to have a copy for public worship.
They also have an unbound folio edition of dozens of Diana Vreeland's original "Vogue" memos, all in typewritten facsimile. (Tres tres cher.)

Eveytime I see someone's dirty shoe-bottoms on a TV talk show I think about how DV always polished the bottoms of her shoes (or rather, had them polished.)

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I saw Allure on amazon.com for $50-something.

Sweetie I know we could start our own perfume topic. btw, Sephora now carries the full Chanel range, including both Gardenia and #19. mmm... i'll keep my eyes peeled for the joseph abboud. Have you tried ebay?

is this it???

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