The Barbie Issue - Supplemento al n.707 di Vogue Italia- Luglio 2009

John Esten
Universe Publishing

"Why Don't You . . . tie black tulle bows on your wrists?have a yellow satin bed entirely quilted in butterflies?remember how delicious champagne cocktails are after tennis or golf? Indifferent champagne can be used for these." For more than half a century, Diana Vreeland, doyenne of American fashion, beguiled, awed, astonished, and was adored by almost anyone who created or wore clothes. Irresistible and flamboyant, socialite Mrs. T. Reed Vreeland began her now legendary twenty-five-year tenure at "Harper's Bazaar writing a column of audacious advice: extravagant ideas that helped redefine American women and twentieth-century fashion. Her commentary created a fashion frenzy when it began appearing in "Harper's Bazaar in 1936. Her ideas were simultaneously stylish and outrageous, and have as much appeal today as they did decades ago. Here for the first time, John Esten has compiled one hundred of Mrs. Vreeland's kaleidoscopic "Why Don't You . . . ?" suggestions, and pairedthem with the breathtaking works of such renowned photographers and artists as Munkacsi, Dahl-Wolfe, Hoyningen-Heune, and Berard, which further capture the dazzling legacy of whimsy, elegance, and style of Mrs. Vreeland's "Bazaar years.

Enrico Marelli
Edizioni Metron

AA.VV.
Charta

Paola Marabelli, Serena Venturi
Gruppo editoriale / Fondazione arte della seta Lisio

Luca Stoppini, Mariuccia Casadio
Skira Editore

Leon Lorenzo Loreti, Jgor Loreti
Mariotti

s.a.
L'Editrice dell'Automobile (LEA)

s.a.
Arti Grafiche F.lli Marelli

Virgilio Barison
Gruppo Bonazzi

AA.VV.
s.e.

Giusi Ferré
Leonardo Arte

Cini Boeri, Elizabeth Diller, Kazuyo Sejima
Fondazione Prada