Allure

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoAYIhhK_msIzrjPPce6sFb_rg3Eo4MWntYbXzovL0hEYKbKK9QWC8o92L6Yylm_MrkgityXqkak8Q9zS4GvhEnAaoOgCRDa6DKUbcr3NVN4JqDIZgcJi2NSkxVMX8tdGj3lupefyvYwbd/s1600/diana+vreeland+red.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoAYIhhK_msIzrjPPce6sFb_rg3Eo4MWntYbXzovL0hEYKbKK9QWC8o92L6Yylm_MrkgityXqkak8Q9zS4GvhEnAaoOgCRDa6DKUbcr3NVN4JqDIZgcJi2NSkxVMX8tdGj3lupefyvYwbd/s640/diana+vreeland+red.jpg" width="476" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I own a lot of vintage books but one I don't have in my collection is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Allure-Diana-Vreeland-Christopher-Hemphill/dp/B000YBM3B4/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1286409920&sr=1-3"><span style="color: #990000;">Allure</span></a> by Diana Vreeland.  I was therefore very excited to see a reissued copy in the bookstore today.  Vreeland was a fashion editor at <em>Harper's Bazaar</em> and <em>Vogue </em>before her appointment in 1972 as “Special Consultant” to The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.  The book came about in 1980 because her editor at Doubleday, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, urged her to put together photos and musing on "allure" in fashion and in life.  Fashion designer Marc Jacobs has written the foreword in the new version of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Allure-Diana-Vreeland/dp/081187043X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1286402655&sr=1-1#_"><span style="color: #990000;">Allure</span></a> and I look forward to adding both editions to my shelves.  </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The cover of <em>Allure</em> is red and since I didn't have any photos from the book, I thought it would be fun to take another look at Diana Vreeland's Park Avenue apartment.  According to her decorator, Billy Baldwin, she told him “I want this room to be a garden-but a garden in hell.”  He replied “I knew what it meant: <em>red</em>. I searched for an eternity before I found exactly the right material- in John Fowler’s shop in London. It was scarlet chintz with brilliant Persian flowers. I raced home with yards and yards of it and we covered the whole room – walls, curtains, furniture, the works.”  Luckily, the bedroom is blue although, still a riot of pattern.  Enjoy! </div>  <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_1RGEyKP93DWMi6C5glAOtwfqqCYuMzrE-ZjSrE8stPOSMiXISSkUwGzK9hjgdkxwleXdYEaRaTjn2fAMQ4ncPgY6dhagun2vvx5XeF3hl3y4a86yTzo52tF4WJAtLHbsxdrRusQHuapM/s1600/vreeland+red+room.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_1RGEyKP93DWMi6C5glAOtwfqqCYuMzrE-ZjSrE8stPOSMiXISSkUwGzK9hjgdkxwleXdYEaRaTjn2fAMQ4ncPgY6dhagun2vvx5XeF3hl3y4a86yTzo52tF4WJAtLHbsxdrRusQHuapM/s400/vreeland+red+room.jpg" width="393" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGY8REiY7ZLvEB9syNhbJAqprrs8BwxWSHJ9ghzSDl0eQTgmncYVs8PAy0VkLjI8YMr1yVx1tXcXw2UAOry6uFjKMiw4SCSsb2PtXbwaqZDMxFvGFvfEH0cKP7-ksUveCwXYpfWPLKqu0c/s1600/vreeland+red+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Allure

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