DV

Finally completed D.V - the autobiography of the late legendary Harper's Bazaar and Vogue editor Diana Vreeland.
She's a very unique and interesting character, more so her writing and expressions.
It's very archaic, quaint, elegant, chic and expressive.
Very different to how we talk and write these days.
There's sort of a European elegance to everything she sees, does, observes etc. A certain joie de vivre to her own life and society and the interesting characters of her time, including her enigmatic friend Coco Chanel.
People and society just seemed more refined then.
Everything was made to order, made to last forever, everyone had personalities and had their quirks and wits celebrated.

So different from our era, where everything is instant, cheap, fast, replaceable and dispensable.
The old-school glamour and elegance was all very very chic.


There seemed a certain splendour to life and things that we now lack, or have been replaced, by the coldness and anonymity of technology and pace.






On another note, here's Iman looking like nothing her age (she's 52).
Is it possible?? She's about my mum's age!!!
It was really distracting seeing this photo....like some impossible biological apparition.