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158 unnumbered leaves : facsimiles, portrait ; 28 cm + 1 case (24 x 30 x 5 cm), Title from unnumbered leaf 157. Textblock (lightly bound signatures) tied with red cotton ribbon and laid into envelope-style red editor's case with string-and-button closure. Foreword by Alexander Vreeland; biographical sketch by Harold Koda Consists of personal memos from Vogue Magazine editor Diana Vreeland to her staff. "One day a mysterious package arrived at the Visionaire offices. It was a large box containing more than four hundred original memos from Diana Vreeland to her staff at Vogue. The package had been sent to us by a contributor who preferred to remain anonymous at the time but who had been on the receiving end of some of this legendary inter-office correspondence. It turned out to be the legendary photographer Richard Avedon, with whom we had developed a close relationship and who decided these needed to be seen. In some ways, the experience was like stumbling upon fashion's Holy Grail. We had heard stories about these memos but were stunned to find out that they actually existed. Dating from 1966 to 1972, the memos, which were dictated to Vreeland's secretary from the sanctuary of her bathroom each morning, covered topics ranging from the wacky (the use of freckles or the utter importance of dog collars, for example) to the divine (the genius of Halston). But more importantly, the Vreeland memos provide a rare glimpse inside the mind of one of the most influential women in fashion history. With help from Alexander Vreeland and David Remnick at The New Yorker, we received permission from Conde Nast to publish nearly 150 of the memos in an edition of 4,000. We soon discovered just how many Vreeland fans there are out there: we received more single copy orders for VREELAND MEMOS than for any previous issue"--Publisher's description. Limited edition of 4000 numbered copies. Library has copy no. 6 of an edition of 4000. Gift of Gregory E. Foley, RISD Alumnus, AP 1991.
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Visionaire37_VreelandMemos.pdf
Publication Date
2001
Imprint / Year
New York, NY : Visionaire Publishing, LLC, [2001]
Measurements
28 cm + 1 case (24 x 30 x 5 cm)
RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record
Publisher
Visionaire Publishing
City
New York
Keywords
text blocks; closures (container components); cases (containers); collaboration; periodicals; fashion (concept); Vreeland, Diana (American journalist and editor, 1903-1989); Vogue Magazine (American periodical, 20th-21st centuries); correspondence; memorandums; publishing; journalism
Disciplines
Book and Paper
Recommended Citation
Gan, Stephen; Dean, Cecilia; Kaliardos, James; Foley, Greg; and Vreeland, Diana, "Visionaire 37: Vreeland Memos" (2001). Visionaire. 45.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_periodicals_visionaire/45