Hints and tips:
...“But you can buy a vintage issue of Harper’s Bazaar edited by Diana Vreeland and art directed by Alexey Brodovitch.”...
...(ArXiv) — In the most Alex Scaggs article ever conceived, Harper’s Bazaar explores how Diana, Princess of Wales came to own a Philadelphia Eagles varsity jacket. (Harper’s Bazaar)....
...“We used to get things like Harper’s Bazaar – and this gave me an idea of what elegance and beauty used to be.”...
...“Sixty per cent of what I do here is creating something that is super-comfortable,” he says, as we enter one of the rooms designed by Istanbul-born Ozbek, the fashion designer who was favoured by Diana,...
...Ann Barr and I had first documented the Sloanes’ secret world a few years earlier in Harpers & Queen magazine, and we knew then that Diana’s style was pure Sloane — and there was lots more where that came...
...Each edition resembles a delightfully manic version of Diana Vreeland’s legendary ‘Why Don’t You’ column for Harper’s Bazaar, which began in 1936 and audaciously suggested readers wash their child’s blonde...
...My friend Monica Paganucci’s dinner table is where I long to go, and also [Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief] Samira Nasr’s dinner table, or the floor in front of the TV, just lying around and playing with...
...Lunch with a tactile Diana, Princess of Wales (her suit “has something of the Aeroflot air stewardess about it”), culminates in her asking him if her breasts are too small....
...Documenting her Park Avenue upbringing and modelling career as well as early roles assisting Diana Vreeland and at The New York Times Magazine, the book also showcases work from her tenures at Harper’s Bazaar...
...Unsheltered , by Barbara Kingsolver, Faber, RRP£20/Harper, RRP$29 Set in the New Jersey town of Vineland, Kingsolver’s magnificent eighth novel dovetails between Willa and Iano, grappling with the various...
...Ordinary People , by Diana Evans, Chatto & Windus, RRP£14.99 Taking its title from the 2004 John Legend song, Diana Evans’s new novel is a sympathetic and smart study of two metropolitan couples on the...
...While, in America, Diana Vreeland’s advice column in Harper’s Bazaar suggested hedonistic (although quite hilarious) tips such as turning one’s “old ermine coat into a bathrobe”, the British fashion media...
...February Harper Lee, novelist ‘Secret Harper Lee certainly was. There seemed, from what little evidence there was, nothing neurotic about it....
...Additional reporting by Duncan Robinson in Brussels Letter in response to this report: Syrians seek insurance policy for the future / From Diana Darke...
...The success of the Sloane Ranger book, the cover of which featured Diana, Princess of Wales, as well as a host of indispensable social tips such as “Read Dick Francis and the FT” and “Eat jelly with a fork...
...‘Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty’ by Robert Lacey is published by Harper (RRP£20) Photographs: The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty; Corbis; AP...
...The new Diana Vreeland Parfums, created by her grandson Alexander, are a series of five brightly coloured fragrances (from $250 each) that are as striking as the former Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar editor was...
...Even Diana, Princess of Wales was partial to a set. “Dungarees have that effortless ‘borrowed from the boys’ vibe that can be seen as incredibly sexy,” says Octavia Bradford, buyer at Net-a-Porter....
...Dresses, usually housed in France, included one worn by Princess Diana, a silver-sequinned dress worn by Audrey Hepburn for a 1959 Harper’s Bazaar shoot, and the spangly gold dress worn by Charlize Theron...
...Dubbed the “Empress of Fashion”, Vreeland (1903-1989) was fashion editor at Harper’s Bazaar from 1936, before becoming editor-in-chief of American Vogue in 1962....
...Titian: His Life, by Sheila Hale, Harper Press, RRP£30, 832 pages About suffering they were never wrong, the Old Masters – especially Titian who, aged 88 in plague-ridden Venice, chose as his final mythological...
...The scale of Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel, a 255-page tome weighing 4lb 7oz, would have pleased the socialite-editor, who once said of a favourite spread in Harper’s Bazaar: “My immediate instinct...
...Still, it was just me and him, with everything set in motion back in New York by Diana Vreeland. Then it was about individual creativity but today it’s picture by committee....
...Diana Sheets, an academic and novelist, supplies her own, as yet rarely heard, answer to that question....
...At Mishcon de Reya, a law firm that has acted in many headline-hitting divorce cases including the late Princess Diana’s, partner Sandra Davis reels off some examples of where pre-nups would be helpful....
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