{"id":11460,"date":"2011-06-29T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T04:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=11460"},"modified":"2011-06-29T00:15:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T04:15:28","slug":"diana-vreeland-isabella-blow-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/diana-vreeland-isabella-blow-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Diana Vreeland, Isabella Blow and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2008<\/a>, I wrote this:<\/p>\n

“A couple of years ago, a much-older male friend annoyed me by asking, ‘What are you going to do when you can\u2019t be cute anymore?’ I privately thought, ‘WTF? My cuteness is eternal AND rust-proof, bitch.’ Out loud, I answered, ‘Then I\u2019ll be old and crazy.’ … I\u2019m going to wear rouge in perfectly round circles and apply lipstick to my teeth.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The excellence of my plan was confirmed by a hybrid catalog\/magazine that I recently received from Bergdorf Goodman<\/a>. The publication included a Q&A between Andrew Bolton, the curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Alexander McQueen designer Sarah Burton.\u00a0 Writer Glenn O’Brien also participated.\u00a0 I was thrilled by this passage:<\/p>\n

Andrew Bolton:<\/strong> …We were talking about [the late Vogue editor-in-chief] Diana Vreeland<\/a>. Our curator Harold Koda used to work with her, and he went to pick her up at her apartment one evening, and she said to him, “Oh, Mr. Koda, am I wearing enough makeup?” And Harold said, “Well, Mrs. Vreeland, you are wearing quite a lot.” And she said, “That’s not what I asked. Am I wearing enough <\/strong>makeup?”<\/em><\/p>\n

Sarah Burton:<\/strong> That’s brilliant!<\/em><\/p>\n

Glenn O’Brien:<\/strong> She occasionally wore lipstick on her teeth.<\/em><\/p>\n

Burton:<\/strong> That’s very Izzy Blow<\/a>, lipstick on the teeth.<\/em><\/p>\n

Bolton:<\/strong> Really chic …<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good to know I’m on the right track. Read an excerpt from a book about the lipstick- and leopard-loving Diana Vreeland here<\/a> and enjoy some of her choice quotes here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Diana Vreeland in her outrageous red apartment. Click for source.<\/p><\/div> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2008, I wrote this: “A couple of years ago, a much-older male friend annoyed me by asking, ‘What are you going to do when you can\u2019t be cute anymore?’ I privately thought, ‘WTF? My cuteness is eternal AND rust-proof, bitch.’ Out loud, I answered, ‘Then I\u2019ll be old and crazy.’ … I\u2019m going to…<\/p>\n

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