Mrs. Vreeland Asks 'Why Don't You?'
Dressed: The History of Fashion
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🗓️ 22 November 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Outlandish, wry and fun, this week we explore the advice on how to live a fashionable lifestyle vis à vis fashion editor Diana Vreeland's column 'Why Don't You?' which debuted in Harper's Bazar in 1936. From fashion tips to interior design, 'Why Don't You?' remains a source of humorous delight more than 75+ years later.
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| 0:00.0 | Dress, The History of Fashion, is a production of dress media. |
| 0:08.3 | With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. |
| 0:12.4 | Every day, we all get dressed. |
| 0:14.6 | Welcome to Dress, the History of Fashion, a podcast that explores the who-what-win of why we wear. |
| 0:19.7 | We are fashion historians and your host, Cassidy Zachary and April Calliam. |
| 0:26.0 | Dress listeners, the subject of our podcast today, once remarked to the press, |
| 0:31.6 | exaggeration is my reality. |
| 0:35.0 | And many of you will already be guessing from the title of this episode that those words |
| 0:40.0 | are that of the inimitable, wild, whimsical fashion editor, Diana Vreeland. Yes. And of course, |
| 0:47.1 | we have talked many times about Diana Vreeland on the show before. And most recently actually |
| 0:52.6 | was in the context of the episode you did a |
| 0:54.8 | couple months ago, April, with fashion historian and journalist Nancy McDonald about her book, |
| 1:00.0 | Imprises of Seventh Avenue. And Vreeland was most certainly one of those impresses who really |
| 1:05.7 | reigned over the world of fashion for decades. And to this day, she really remains an iconic figure in the |
| 1:11.8 | history of fashion for a myriad of reasons. Starting with the fact that for 26 years, she worked as a |
| 1:17.5 | fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar, beginning in 1936. And it was while she was there that she created |
| 1:23.2 | some of the most memorable images in fashion history with a team that included photographers |
| 1:27.3 | like Louise Stahl-Woof and Richard Avedon. And this was some of the most memorable images in fashion history with a team that included photographers like |
| 1:27.7 | Louis Stahl-Woof and Richard Avedon. And this was all, of course, before she controversially |
| 1:33.9 | moved to Vogue, the heresy. These are very much rivals at this time. She was seen as a trainer. |
| 1:41.4 | Yeah, though, if memory serves me correctly, this was after Carmel Snow was forced to retire or did retire, and then she was maybe passed over for the editor-in-chief job at Harper's Bazaar. |
| 1:52.9 | And so in 1962, she left Harper's, and she went on to be the editor-in-chief at Harper's rival, Vogue in 1963. And she remained in this role until |
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