(edited, incidentally, with gusto by Paris Review cofounder George Plimpton).
Above it hung the splendid William Acton portrait of Vreeland that graced the first edition of her memoir, D.V.
Room,” for it boasted a rather ancient television set that looked like it might electrocute anyone who dared near it. Our hosts, aware of my longstanding obsession with Diana, settled me into what is alternately known as the “D.V. A friend, who has long been close with the Vreeland family, took me on a weeklong pilgrimage to the Marrakech home of one of Vreeland’s sons. Last year, I was given the birthday gift of a lifetime: I got to spend the occasion with Diana Vreeland. Kazhdomu iz vas, kto vpervye budet chitat etu knigu, ja zaviduju. I da, kak chelovek ona, nesomnenno, byla bolshe, chem vse ee mega-uspeshnye proekty. I muzej, i zhurnal uspeshno zhivut i protsvetajut do sikh por. Moschnyj igrok na prostorakh industrii mody, ona snachala podnjala na novyj uroven Vogue, sdelav ego samym vlijatelnym gljantsevym zhurnalom, a zatem - unikalnyj Institut kostjuma v Metropoliten-muzee. Iz predislovija Aleny Doletskoj: "Diana Vriland, avtor etoj knigi, - legendarnyj glavnyj redaktor amerikanskogo Vogue, pozhaluj, samaja jarkaja zvezda na allee slavy gljantsevoj zhurnalistiki, zhenschina do mozga kostej, dama, obladajuschaja fenomenalnoj strastnostju i distsiplinoj, stalnoj volej i bezuprechnym vkusom. Dlja kogo eta kniga: Dlja vsekh, kto interesuetsja modoj i kultovymi figurami mody. Kak i ee nasledie, istorija Vriland, rasskazannaja eju samoj, javljaetsja klassikoj, kotoruju vysoko otsenivajut i predannye poklonniki, i novoe pokolenie znatokov kultury i stilja. Svoim ubeditelnym i kharizmatichnym golosom Diana Vriland ozhivljaet povestvovanie otkrovennykh rasskazov, bud to poiski idealnogo krasnogo tsveta, pikantnye nabljudenija za mirom ili otvraschenie k nostalgii. Blagodarja ej Vogue priobrel slavu, ves i znachimost, a ee neobychnyj vzgljad na krasotu sdelal znamenitymi mnogikh artistov, modelej i fotografov.Iz anglijskikh dvortsov v nochnye kluby Parizha 1930-kh godov, iz dikikh mest Vajominga v ekskljuzivnye mesta vysshego obschestva Nju-Jorka, kniga perenosit nas v oslepitelnuju zhizn etoj udivitelnoj zhenschiny i znakomit s ee druzjami: Koko Shanel, gertsogom i gertsoginej Vindzorskimi, Klarkom Gejblom, Dzhekom Nikolsonom i drugimi izvestnymi dejateljami XX veka. Kultovaja figura i kultovaja kniga v mire mody i gljantsa.Jarkaja, kharizmatichnaja, vlastnaja Diana Vriland - modnyj redaktor Harper's Bazaar, glavnyj redaktor zhurnala Vogue i organizator vystavok kostjuma v Metropoliten-muzee - byla zhenschinoj, chej talant i chuvstvo stilja opredeljali mir vysokoj mody na protjazhenii pjatidesjati let.
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