Posts Tagged ‘diana vreeland’

“Why Don’t You…?” was the famous over-the-top expression of Diana Vreeland, the Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief who revolutionized the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute. Diana was a style mentor to me all my life with her amusing, over-the-top “Why Don’t You…? quips like:   “Why Don’t You… rinse your blond child’s hair in dead champagne […]


“People have laughed at me over the years, but the same people are now hanging pictures from sashes and bows, and using chintzes like there’s no tomorrow.” Mario Buatta, Interior Designer, circa 1980’s “All this digital is driving me crazy more into my sensual selfie!” Jade Dressler, circa launching and laughing into 2014 I hear you […]


Open Up Now. This won’t hurt a bit. More voices than any time on this planet’s history are chattering away 24, 7. Listening 99% of the time or listening to the 99% is seemingly impossible. And yet…we all have at least a 1% “feeling” of the import of all this chatter, this Possibility Inherent in […]


24 little hours: september NY fashion week 2011 given to looooonnng form journalism for blog posts and just back from speaking at a BOOMSPDESIGN design conference in sao paulo brazil as of tuesday morning, having made no #nyfw (hashtag new york fashion week) plans other than fixating on getting my clients, 3 austrian accessory designers in […]


Hand to Mouth. Mouth to Hand. Mouth to Universe. Universe to Hand. Hello! While Mars Candy Man was out hunting, Venus Wildcrafting Woman was gathering. Man hungrily lurching out for his needs, high on sugars, waving a spear and a prayer while his woman was wiggling her conjuring fingers aligning with the forces of Natura, […]