I finally got around to watching the Diane Vreeland documentary, The Eye Has to Travel...( I have regaled folks for years with my own small story of an encounter with her in the late 70s which I wont share here now)...I wanted to observe that having also seen the Anna Wintour film study, The September Issue... Its remarkable how different in spirit but alike in action these two giants at Vogue were. Vreeland was just making it all up! Relying on her own romantic notions and a lifelong battle against being an ugly duckling to define fashion for generations of women. Wintour approaches fashion with a more educated sort of expertise. But what both women exemplify is a tremendous willingness to stake everything on their own decision making...to act and to not look back...More and more I am concluding that success generally belongs not so much to the talented and to the smart...but to those who take action over and over again. Failing sometimes...Winning other times...But never standing still...Always moving forward...And one last note here...Meryl Streeps Amanda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada is mostly Anna with a big red splash of Diane.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 14:02:43 +0000