![]() ![]() And although she says, "I stopped reading - seriously reading - years ago, she can talk about Tolstoy and kept The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon next to her bed. She rightly says that the books one has read are the way you find out about a person. But she was also a very insightful, practical, intelligent and hard-working woman. ![]() And, indeed, she herself said that she adored artifice. ![]() Remarks like "Unshined shoes are the end of civilization" and the famous "Pink is the navy blue of India" make Vreeland seem superficial. ![]() She knew everyone, from Josephine Baker to Jacqueline Onassis with the Windsors in between, practically invented red, was fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar for twenty-six years and editor-in-chief at Vogue for eight, and ended her career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. Raised in a rawther social family, in London and Paris and New York, she married banker Reed Vreeland at the age of nineteen, and he was clearly the love of her life. And it's full of italics! Vreeland's excitement and enthusiasm for whatever it is she's talking about are evident on the page. You zip through this book because you find yourself reading it as quickly as it was said. And, boy, can she talk! A mile a minute is a conservative estimate. Vreeland and let her talk, and then pretty much transcribed the conversation as it had happened. Instead, it's rather obvious that the editors, George Plimpton and Christopher Hemphill, just sat down with Mrs. ![]()
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