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isabel toledo.(Brief Article)
Byline: Florence Kane
The year is 1985. About 20 top industry names-including Bill Cunningham of The New York Times and buyers from Bergdorf's-are crowded into a borrowed shoe showroom. Backstage, five models dress themselves in a space the size of a closet by grabbing whatever they fancy off Isabel Toledo's racks. A boom box is set up, but the batteries start to die and the Cuban music comes out sounding all warped. In its review, the Times amusingly refers to these as "unsteady Ricky Ricardo-esque rhythms."
Isabel Toledo has never done things the boring way. Thirteen years after the madcap show that made Manhattan's fashion press sit up and take notice, she traded in the conventional runway altogether to start putting on exhibits at museums like MoMu in Antwerp, often jointly with her ...
- Diana Vreeland, a true fashion original, dies. (obituary)
- Magazine article from: WWD Sheinman, Mort August 23, 1989 700+ words
DIANA VREELAND, A TRUE FASHION ORIGINAL, DIES NEW YORK -- Diana Vreeland, whose extravagant personal style and bold professional...were direct, dazzling and eminently quotable. Diana Vreeland was a perfectionist with pizzazz. She claimed...
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...the Metropolitan Museum of Art and took the audio tour. Diana Vreeland was a special consultant to the institute at the time...my buddy George, and he's trying to cast the role of Diana Vreeland, and I said, 'Oh, my God, Illeana!' and George said...
- Selling culture: Bloomingdale's Diana Vreeland, and the new aristocracy of...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Mullarkey, Maureen November 1, 1986 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Interview October 1, 1999 700+ words
...down to supper with the "Empress of Style," Diana Vreeland. DIANA VREELAND: There is a Who's Who, you know. JONATHAN...You must miss [your old boss] the legendary Diana Vreeland. PM: She was my mentor. I get teary when...
- Diana Vreeland
- Picture from: Archive Photos September 1, 1994 700+ words
...eccentric. bold. Vreeland, Diana indoor Trend setter Diana Vreeland earned her reputation as fashion editor of Harper's...Vreeland earrings. people. fashion & cosmetics Diana Vreeland Copyright (c) Archive Photos.
- DIANA VREELAND, FASHION ARBITER; WAS EDITOR OF WOMEN'S MAGAZINES
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Associated Press August 23, 1989 700+ words
NEW YORK - Diana Vreeland, an editor at two leading women's magazines who became the fashion world's flamboyant arbiter...Frederick D. AA0717;08/22 LDRISC;08/23,21:02 VREELA23 Caption: PHOTO 1983 photo / DIANA VREELAND
- Diana Vreeland explains necessity of vulgarity in House and Gardens article.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 13, 1984 700+ words
...NEW YORK, March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Fashion doyenne Diana Vreeland believes that bad taste is something "we could use more...No taste is what I'm against." Following are more of Diana Vreeland's observations from the House & Garden excerpts...
- Becoming Diana Vreeland: in this excerpt from Eleanor Dwight's new biography of...
- Magazine article from: Victoria Dwight, Eleanor November 1, 2002 700+ words
I MET DIANA VREELAND ONCE, YEARS AGO. It was a winter evening, and the famous editor...radiated a particular kind of energy and enthusiasm. I thought of Diana Vreeland while I was writing a biography of Edith Wharton. A brilliant observer...
