Gems include quotes like, 'I mean, a dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress.'
, could almost be categorized as an audiobook. So distinctive was this editor and curator’s personality, so succinct and clear her point of view, that it’s virtually impossible not to “hear” such quips as: “A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika.” And that’s not by chance—Diana, theeditor-in-chief was an audiophile. “My grandmother would wake up in the morning and call her office, and she would dictate memos and letters.
“My grandmother adored leopards: the way they moved, the way they looked, their raw energy, their inherent beauty.”Diana, who had striking looks, was the daughter of a conventional beauty, after whom her younger sister took. “I was always her ugly little monster,” Diana wrote of her mother in her memoir,. By calling on her inner resources, and through sheer will power, Diana became the woman she wanted to be and thereafter led by example.
Diana was already being mythologized in her time as an oracle, as a stentorian despot, as a visionary, but that’s not how Alexander knew her in person, nor what he found through interviews with her colleagues, or through her writings.is at once optimistic and realistic. The same cannot be said for Kay Thompson’s caricature of Diana, as the snappy editrix Maggie Prescott in the 1957 filmIf Prescott was thinking pink, Diana, the character’s real life inspiration, was looking for silver linings.
Diana never lost sight of her responsibilities, however. Alexander stresses that his grandmother’s legacy must be seen “in a framework of tremendous amount of work. It’s not like she had a salon and she’d sit around and philosophize about, you know, fun hats all day long. [There was a] tremendous amount of personal work involved.”Photo: Courtesy of Rizzoli; Illustration by Luke Edward Hall, Alexander wanted to introduce Diana to a new generation and to form connections with people.
“My grandmother was very proud of having been born in Paris. She felt that being from Paris gave one a life-long connection with creativity, art, and beauty.”“I love the idea of young people being with their ‘sufferings’ until one day their lives come together. It is a great perspective.”“My grandmother adored color. I think she derived energy from looking at bold powerful colors.”“These three quotes all speak to living in the present.
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