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Diana Vreeland's memos to the editors, bookers, and assistants on her staff at "Vogue" record her obsessions and her passionate prodding. The memos were dictated to one of her often replaced secretaries, usually from home in the morning or, after twelve, at her office in the Graybar Building on Lexington Avenue, with its faux leopard-skin carpet and red walls covered with photographs and clippings neatly lined up and attached with pushpins. "Visionaire", the art and fashion quarterly, invites readers to take an intimate look into her creative reign at "Vogue" by publishing these fabled inter-office memos in an appropriately exclusive edition portfolio. Loosely bound and wrapped in red ribbon, "Visionaire 37" reproduces a select 150 of the 400 surviving memos that detail Vreeland's absolutely definitive thoughts about fashion, photographers, models, and the inner workings of the world's most powerful fashion magazine. DECEMBER 9, 1966 RE: PEARLS I am extremely disappointed to see that we have used practically no pearls at all in the past few issues. In fact, many necklines could have been helped by pearls worn inside the dress that show inside the cutaway sides and back of most ordinary dresses on top ... I speak of this very often--and as soon as I stop speaking the pearls disappear. Nothing gives the luxury of pearls. Please keep this in mind. DECEMBER 11, 1968 RE: KNEE SOCKS I repeat again the importance of knee socks ... The white knee sock and the white show will again look devine this spring ... Don't let us forget this ... APRIL 14, 1969 Let's promote grey. For everything. At the present moment, how much grey have we got? APRIL 14, 1970 SUBJECT: IRONING ONE'S HAIR WITH AN IRON What has happened to this delightful idea, we have not heard about it lately.

13 x 9.5 in.
illustrated throughout
Numbered Limited Edition of 4,000

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1371290 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 150 pages

About the Author
Diana Vreeland was the editor-in-chief of "Vogue" from 1962 to 1971, and one of the most legendary fashion figures of all times. For 25 years before her "Vogue" stewardship, she worked at "Harper's Bazaar", and from 1972 until her death in 1989 she was the Special Consultant to the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, a job she invented.