I am losing it!!

Well, it must be something to do with the damaged cable under the sea, but I cannot load ANY photos. Have been going mad for the last few days. I hope it is that, and not my computer packing up.

So for now I will leave you with a few fun quotes from the book I am reading - DV by Diana Vreeland. An autobiography.

Just a quick introduction to Diana Vreeland:
Vreeland reigned as the queen of the fashion world for over fifty years.
As fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar and editor in chief of Vogue, she was obsesses with fashion high and low - pink plastic poodles in Palm Beach, for example - and used the pages of the magazine to bring her love of the bizarre and the absurd to her audience.

The book is absolutely fabulous to read. Let me give you some examples and quotes. All taken from the Foreword by Mary Louise Wilson.

DV : " Pink is the navy blue of India"

DV: "I see girls and I see the way their feet fall off the sidewalk when they're getting ready to cross the street, but they're waiting for the light, with their marvelous hair blowing in the wind and their fatigued eyes"

Mary Louise Wilson: "Then a photograph of her living room appeared in a magazine. Never had I seen such profusion, so much red! Red on the floor, red up the walls, and textures, textures, TEXTURES! Plaid on top of paisley, flowered chintz next to silk stripes, and silver, tortoise, ebony, conch, gilt - a magnificent explosion in the midst of a beige decade, a world in which the worst sin was to 'clash'"

DV: " I want everyone to write with quill pens!" Said on her first day as editor at Vogue

DV's son " Mom never liked to appear unless she was at full gallop"

Cecil Beaton about DV's slang and skewed syntax: " One would think she spent hours in an ambiguous Times Square drug stores"

Mary Louise Wilson: " We tune in to laugh and end up obeying her commands to never go to bed tired....always keep our shoes shined.....never look back.....go all the way all the time.....and to dream"

So if this is just the Foreword can you imagine the rest of the book, packed with brilliant anecdotes straight from the horse's mouth - the fantastically magically, spontaneous and thrilling Diana Vreeland.