The Glass of Fashion, Signed Presentation to Diana Vreeland
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[Signed Presentation to Diana Vreeland] Beaton, Cecil. The Glass of Fashion. First English Edition. 1954. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. This copy is signed, “To Diana & Reed, Love from Cecil.” Vreeland has written her name and address on the front endpaper, “Diana D. Vreeland, 400 Park Ave., N.Y. 22.” Also, a section of the book is about Vreeland, and her name and pages are circled in the book’s index.
There is no more knowledgeable guide to 20th Century fashion than Beaton, and in this witty, articulate book, he takes the reader on a whirlwind tour. He categorizes the fashion hierarchy into three castes—followers, leaders, and those who, because of their extraordinary taste, cannot help but be fashionable. This book is mostly about this latter category—including Diana Vreeland to whom this copy is signed. What a great copy!
“Mrs Vreeland is unquestionably the Madame de Sévigné of fashion’s court: witty, brilliant, intensely human, gifted like Madame de Sévigné with a superb flair for anecdotes that that she communicates verbally rather than in epistles, Mrs Vreeland is more of a connoisseur of fashion than anyone I know.”
There is no more knowledgeable guide to 20th Century fashion than Beaton, and in this witty, articulate book, he takes the reader on a whirlwind tour. He categorizes the fashion hierarchy into three castes—followers, leaders, and those who, because of their extraordinary taste, cannot help but be fashionable. This book is mostly about this latter category—including Diana Vreeland to whom this copy is signed. What a great copy!
“Mrs Vreeland is unquestionably the Madame de Sévigné of fashion’s court: witty, brilliant, intensely human, gifted like Madame de Sévigné with a superb flair for anecdotes that that she communicates verbally rather than in epistles, Mrs Vreeland is more of a connoisseur of fashion than anyone I know.”
--Cecil Beaton
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