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...Fashion editor Diana Vreeland believed red could never be boring. The color dominated her home and office...
...FASHION PURIST who reportedly never gave a single interview, Cristóbal Balenciaga created a revolution with his subtle hand and rigorous tailoring. So flattering were the cut and construction of his clothes that Diana Vreeland once declared, "In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room." Born in a small Basque village in Spain in 1895, Balenciaga worked in his mother's seamstress shop and found his first client at 13 when a local countess permitted him to copy one of her couture dresses. She later paid his way to Madrid for formal training. By 1919 Balenciaga...
Bolton faces less partisan accusers as well. Nearly 60 retired diplomats, many of whom served under Republican Presidents, signed a letter to the committee opposing Bolton's confirmation. Frederick Vreeland, a former ambassador to Morocco who worked under Bolton when both were senior State Department officials in the Administration of Bush's father, sent an e-mail obtained by TIME to top committee Democrat Joseph Biden, saying Bolton "dealt with visitors to his office as if they were servants with whom he could be dismissive, curt and negative...
...change that. Caranicas' book is filled with hundreds of Lopez's outrageous and colorful drawings and photographs. "He was a virtuoso artist," Caranicas says. "He could draw in any style he chose." Lopez was renowned for his impeccable representation of the human form. His subjects included Pat Cleveland, Diana Vreeland and Audrey Hepburn. Not to mention Jerry Hall, above, whom he discovered when she was 15. Known as Antonio's Girls, his subjects were among his biggest fans. --BY BETSY KROLL
Carr's story has the stuff of drama; Vreeland's novel does not. She doesn't have the advantage in this book of Gentileschi's personal turmoil: her rape by one of her father's studio assistants, leading to a well-documented trial. Time and again, Carr encounters the same obstacles: hostile critics, philistine neighbors. Time and again, folks point out that she's a rebel. Eventually, she triumphs anyway. In the future, Vreeland might want to choose a more absorbing artist or give her a more complex internal life. Georgia O'Keeffe, call your agent...