Particular Passions

Particular Passions: Talks with Women who Shaped our Times

DIANA VREELAND - ADDICTED TO FASHION

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"Fashion is made to become unfashionable"  - Coco Chanel Layers of petticoats, ribbons, and ruffles, Now we wear flip flops in which we can shuffle.

Marquise de Pompadour by François Boucher 1756

Marquise de Pompadour by François Boucher 1756

Do yourself a favor and buy a brief chapter from "Particular Passions: Talks with Women Who Have Shaped our Times" - the oral biography of Diana Vreeland, whose pioneering exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art elevated fashion to a fine art - a bargain at $.99  Available at  Amazon  and Apple.

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