Lessons from HARPER’S BAZAAR
The champagne will be uncorked in around two hours, and the cover of the first Dutch Harper’s Bazaar (well no, actually there was a previous attempt to launch it in the ’90s, but let’s forget that for now) will be unveiled.
Red has made place for this often stamped as ‘iconic’ title. Mostly thanks to Diane Vreeland, who worked there for 26 years and as editor-in-chief created the blueprint for how we put magazines together today. Or would like to, because Diane had one crazy soul and a budget like a super tanker. So on this very memorable occasion (I love magazines and I’m hugely excited about the rovings of Cécile Narinx and buddy Piet Paris), I’d like to honour Diane Vreeland, who actually died coincidentally this week, exactly 25 years ago.
- Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
- Style- all who have it share one thing; originality.
- I’ve learned a tremendous amount from the maids in my life.
- It’s not about the dress, it’s about the life you live in it.
- You gotta have style. It helps you to get down the stairs, it helps you to get up in the morning.
- Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world, and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.
- Don’t think you were born too late. Everyone has that illusion. But you aren’t. People think too late.
Cécile and I chatted about Diane Vreeland in DWDD two years ago. Want to see? Take a look.
