Allure by Diana Vreeland
Vreeland, Diana. Allure. First Edition. 1980. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition.
If the spirit of Diana Vreeland is haunting someone (and it isn’t Grace Mirabella or Alexander Liberman), it might be the publishers of the 2002 dwarf version of Allure that was issued sans dust jacket. This first edition, published in her lifetime, is folio-size and as grand as she was. In it, she curates a collection of fashion and society portraits that meet her elusive definition of “allure,” which she defines and then expands upon throughout the book. With photographs by Beaton, Horst, Hoyningen-Huene, Steichen, Avedon, and others.
“But why do you worry about good taste? That’s part of the problem—the worry, the eternal worry. Lots of people have terrible taste, you know, and make a damn good living off of it.”
--Diana Vreeland