NEW YORK CITY FASHION WEEK & ALL THE PIZAZZ

"I hope I’m giving people pleasure, something to look at, to think about, something that fills their imagination or evokes a few thoughts."

Diana Vreeland in “Particular Passions: Talks with Women who Have Shaped our Times”

Charles Frederick Worth, dress for Empress Elisabeth of Austria, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter circa 1865

Charles Frederick Worth (1825-1895), is widely considered the Father of Haute couture, while Diana Vreeland is most likely considered the Mother of Fashion as Fine Art.

Vreeland who introduced the seminal and blockbuster exhibitions of fashion at the Metropolitan Museum, linked the commercial world of fashion with the blue blood institution of the Met. A step forward into new territory for both.

The chapter of Vreeland available for all e-readers at Amazon and  Apple. is probably the only purchase you’ll find during  Fashion Week that is a true bargain and will give you pleasure at $.99.

You can read Diana Vreeland's chapter, or better yet, buy the whole book. Try it you'll really like it.  As one reviewer said: "One of those rare, rare books that pick your life up, turn it around and point it in the right direction." — K.T. Maclay.

Particular Passions: available for all e-reading devices at Amazon and Apple.

The book is $7.99, and 12 chapters are available for $0.99 each.

SAVOR THE “THRILL” Of NEW YORK CITY FASHION WEEK

“Of course, people have grown up from under a stone and have come up with plenty of style. We’re all born to have it, we just need to get on to our own thing.” - Diana Vreeland in "Particular Passions: Talks With Women who Have Shaped our Times”

Broccoli Purse by Fulvio Bonavia

Enjoy the imagination, vision, sass and style of Diana Vreeland, in a brief oral biography  in Particular Passions.  It was Diana Vreeland's seminal and blockbuster exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that elevated fashion to fine art.

The bag above represents for me the creativity and courage that Ms Vreeland brought to her life's work.

The chapter available for all e-readers at Amazon and Apple. is probably the only purchase you'll find during  Fashion Week that is a true bargain and will give you pleasure at $.99.

"This is a wonderful book. . .The book is recommended reading for anyone—no matter what political or sociological background—who wants to know more about living history.        - Santa Cruz Sentine

Particular Passions: is available for all e-reading devices at Apple  and Amazon.  The book is $7.99, and 12 chapters are available for $.99 each.

One of many glowing reviews:

"This is a wonderful book. . .The book is recommended reading for anyone—no matter what political or sociological background—who wants to know more about living history." — Santa Cruz Sentinel.

NEW YORK CITY FASHION WEEK TAKES ON THE WORLD

“People have always loved to look at fairy princesses, queens, beautiful objects, buildings, and gardens. Looking at beauty is a natural part of life." - Diana Vreeland, "Particular Passions: Talks with Women who Have Shaped our Times"

Read a brief oral biography of Diana Vreeland from "Particular Passions,"  whose seminal exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art elevated fashion to fine art.

Available for all e-readers at Amazon and Apple for $.99.

"Particular Passions" profiles forty-six American women who forged successful careers in fields that had traditionally been open only to men. The women were pioneers in the arts and sciences, athletics and law, mathematics and politics, among other disciplines. They overcame countless obstacles to build fulfilling lives for themselves, and in so doing opened doors for new generations of women in America and around the world.

"Every woman owes it to herself to look up Particular Passions—borrow the volume from your public library. Or, better still, buy it and put it with your favorite novel or poetry collection to sustain you. Every story in the book is an inspiration. This book is a joy and a tonic." —Pioneer Press and Dispatch

Particular Passions, the complete book, is available for $7.99 at Apple  and Amazon.

DIANA VREELAND - ADDICTED TO FASHION

"Fashion is made to become unfashionable"  - Coco Chanel Layers of petticoats, ribbons, and ruffles, Now we wear flip flops in which we can shuffle.

Marquise de Pompadour by François Boucher 1756

Do yourself a favor and buy a brief chapter from "Particular Passions: Talks with Women Who Have Shaped our Times" - the oral biography of Diana Vreeland, whose pioneering exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art elevated fashion to a fine art - a bargain at $.99  Available at  Amazon  and Apple.

"One of those rare, rare books that pick your life up, turn it around and point it in the right direction." — K.T. Maclay

DIANA VREELAND CREATED FASHION AS A "HERITAGE SITE"

"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic." — George Bernard Shaw

Vreeland documented this remarkable fact, Exhibiting styles at the Met with great tact.

Her flair and ability to attract huge masses, Shows were so special we had to have passes.

Vreeland is a fashion icon, whose life is documented in the recent blockbuster, “The Eye has to Travel.  Her seminal exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art elevated fashion to fine art.

Do yourself a favor and buy a brief chapter of her life from Particular Passions: Talks with Women Who Have Shaped our Times - a bargain at $.99.

"One of those rare, rare books that pick your life up, turn it around and point it in the right direction." — K.T. Maclay

Particular Passions is available on Amazon and Apple.

Particular Passions: Diana Vreeland

"I always have doubts about what I do.  When I start a show, I’m very timid and nervous for weeks and months. It takes a great deal out of me. It’s hard work. You start with an idea and you believe in it and then it grows around you . . .you gain confidence.  Some days are big days.  You jump. You get a whole excitable, marvelous . . . wonderful it-doesn’t-balance, what-the-hell-are-we-going-to-do feeling.  Then you know. It all comes gradually and then entirely . . . somehow it ends up that people like it and I’m very happy, and very proud, and very very pleased, because that’s the job." DIANA VREELAND from PARTICULAR PASSIONS: Diana Vreeland.

The oral biography of Diana Vreeland, whose pioneering exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art elevated fashion to a fine art. Enjoy this chapter at no charge, by sharing the story with your social network.

Review a chapter of Particular Passions to win a $100 gift card to Amazon or Apple.  One reviewer from each site will be chosen on October 15, 2012.

PARTICULAR PASSIONS recounts the rich oral histories of forty-two pioneering women of the twentieth century from the arts and sciences, athletics and law, mathematics and politics.

We share their journeys as they pursue successful paths with intelligence and determination, changing the world for the millions of women and men who were inspired by them.  

These stories will captivate, educate, and inspire you.

 Please purchase these individual chapters or the complete book at Apple and Amazon.

Review a chapter of Particular Passions to win a $100 gift card to Amazon or Apple.  One reviewer from each site will be chosen on October 15, 2012.