Diana Vreeland: Bazaar Years

"Why Dont You . . . tie black tulle bows on your wrists? have a yellow satin bed entirely quilted in butterflies? remember how delicious champagne cocktails are after tennis or golf? Indifferent champagne can be used for these." For more than half a century Diana Vreeland doyenne of American fashion beguiled awed astonished and was adored by almost anyone who created or wore clothes. Irresistible and flamboyant socialite Mrs. T. Reed Vreeland began her now legendary twenty-five-year tenure at Harpers Bazaar writing a column of audacious advice: extravagant ideas that helped redefine American women and twentieth-century fashion. Her commentary created a fashion frenzy when it began appearing in Harpers Bazaar in 1936. Her ideas were simultaneously stylish and outrageous and have as much appeal today as they did decades ago. Here for the first time John Esten has compiled one hundred of Mrs. Vreelands kaleidoscopic "Why Dont You . . . ?" suggestions and paired them with the breathtaking works of such renowned photographers and artists as Munkacsi Dahl-Wolfe Hoyningen-Heune and Brard which further capture the dazzling legacy of whimsy elegance and style of Mrs. Vreelands Bazaar years.