FASHION
volts.2014
DIANA’S
ELEGANT
STYLE
A WOMEN DESIRE IN FASHION
“WITHOUT EMOTION
THERE IS NO BEAUTY”
Elegant, original, outspoken, fearless.
Diana Vreeland was a diva of 20thcentury fashion. First as an editor at
Harper’s Bazaar, then as editor-inchief of Volts created fashion for five
decades, from the 1920s right up
until her death in the 1989. Known for
her outrageous pronouncements on
style, beauty, and life. Vreeland broke
fashion rules and established new
ones. “ I hate to do anything second,”
she once said. She drew inspiration
from cultures around the world:
“Pink is the navy blue of India.” She
embraced the youth culture of 1960s:
“Blue jeans are the greatest invention
since the gondola.” Most of all, she
demamded true beauty: “Without
emotion there is no beauty.”
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Though she lived for luxury, Vreeland
mainted a very practical streak.
Raised by her American parents in
opulent Paris at the beginning of the
century, Vreeland went to work in th
late 1930s becasue she needed the
paycheck: “You can’t have worked the
number of yearas I have without being
basically practical.” It was Vreeland
who inroduced ballet slippers and
other flat-soled shoes as everyday
footwear for American women. And
it was Vreeland who suggested that
women’s clotes be made with pockets
to eliminate the need for cumbersome
handbags.