Diana Vreeland Quotes
Naturally, I’ve always been mad about clothes. You don’t get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.
Vreeland, Diana. D.V. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984, p. 3.
Adams had been in the position before. A perukemaker was a wig maker. Most men wore fancy wigs in public for formal occasions. All the ambassadors were expected to wear a wig to court with the exception of Benjamin Franklin who had his own identity as a major celebrity and could do anything he wanted and get away with it. He often wore a coon skin hat with tail from the American frontier while everyone else, including the king wore wigs. In the high English courts, wigs are still worn by the judges and attorneys.
Diana Vreeland was a French-American columnist and editor in the field of fashion. She worked for the fashion magazines Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, being the editor-in-chief of the latter, and as a special consultant at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was named on the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1964.
