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...sign her up. Iman, 20, who speaks fluent English, learned in the missionary schools she attended until age 15, arrived in Manhattan last week looking well-coiffed, made-up and clothed in jungle chic. "She's very distinguished, with a beautiful head and lovely long throat," observed Diana Vreeland, former editor of Vogue. Wilhelmina projected Iman's first-year salary at $80,000, prompting Beard to boast: "I feel like it's My Fair Lady." Iman's own goal: "To see the world...
...Diana Vreeland New York City...
...Dreams, power and imagination," murmured High Priestess of Fashion Diana Vreeland. She was looking over galleries that glittered and winked with rhinestones, diamanté, sequins and paillettes. It was on the eve of her exhibition, Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design at the Metropolitan Museum, and the former Vogue editor in chief was putting last-minute touches on more than 100 refurbished but original costumes from the movies. Pausing by the white organza gown worn by Joan Crawford in Letty Lynton, she recalled: "Five hundred thousand copies of this dress were sold." Then she straightened the hat worn by Vivien Leigh...
...script. His JJ. Gittes is cool, ironic, sympathetically small-time, a guy who stumbles on something a little bigger than he expected, or can manage. He also gets the chance to smile a lot. "That smile of his is simply a killer," says Nicholson's friend Diana Vreeland, former editor of Vogue, who ought to know a little something about smiles. "Jack must know it's devastating, because he uses it very rarely...
...teach a person how to make up, lose weight, stand, work before a camera, but you can't impart that special instinct a great model has," says Eileen Ford of her longtime protégée. Diana Vreeland, onetime editor of Vogue, spotted it early in the game. Watching Lauren at a shoot one day, Vreeland told the then second-string model: "You have presence." That appraisal landed Hutton on Vreeland's picture pages, and on the pages of many other magazines from then...