Allure

By Diana Vreeland

Book Overview

Legendary fashion maven Diana Vreelandat the urging of her editor Jackie Oauthored a classic volume in the 1980s on the quality of "allure" in fashion and in life. Now back in print, this new edition features a foreword from the incomparable fashion designer Marc Jacobs. Throughout Allure, Vreeland lends her famous knack for turning a phrase to an astonishing array of fashion, celebrity, and fine art photographs. Featuring images of such luminaries as Maria Callas, Gertrude Stein, and Marilyn Monroeshot by superstar photographers such as Man Ray, Cecil Beaton, and Richard AvedonAllure is poised to deliver Vreeland's unparalleled point of view to a whole new generation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081187043X
• ISBN13: 9780811870436
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

An essential.

This is an essential of style by one of the seminal figures of fashion, Diana Vreeland. Granted, some of the print qualities aren't exceptional; however, the visuals compensate.

A Fashion Must

I am very pleased that those of us can't afford the first edition can now own this classic!