Memories. Diana Vreeland Letter – 1983
Letter from Diana Vreeland
Memories. A letter to treasure. Forever. From Diana Vreeland, famous for her years at Harper’s Bazaar, as Editor in Chief at Vogue, the 12 extraordinary exhibitions she consulted on for Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute, her wit, her often outrageous quotes and much more.
Diana Vreeland, also a classy lady, sent me this letter in 1983 after I had devoted my whole column, about 8 pages, in Peluquerias Magazine to her 1982 exhibition, La Belle Epoque. I had researched visuals of the art period from 1890 to 1914 extensively, and asked various hairdressers to send me photos and sketches of updated versions of the hair looks for the era. Peluquerias did us all proud with a great layout design. But I never expected a letter like this from The Great One. What an honor.
CommentStylish Blouses & Shoes Belle Epoque – 1900
New York Herald – 1900
For Fall, consider stylish blouses, shoes and buckles inspired by these Belle Epoque illustrations published in 1900 by the New York Herald for its first fashion supplement instructing ladies about style and fashions of the era. (From the “La Belle Epoque” catalog by Philippe Julian and Diana Vreeland for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, published in 1982, with a forward and descriptions by Diana Vreeland about the era, the fashions, the mood, the times. Click to get the catalog for more research:
CommentPunk: Chaos to Couture @The Met – Yamamoto
Metropolotan Musuem of Art – Photo: Helen Oppenheim
PUNK – FROM CHAOS TO COTURE – at the Metropolitan Museum of Art May 9 to August 13, 2013. Here’s Yohji Yamamoto. More fashions under Museums on www.helenoppenheim.com. Red carpet arrivals will be live streamed beginning at 7 pm on metmuseum.org/metgala, modaoperandi.com, vogue.com and samsung.com/galaxys4/punk – tonight, Friday May 6, beginning at 7 pm.Z
Hair treatment: Guido Palau … Photo: Helen Oppenheim
CommentWaving Beauty Aimee Mullins, Hair by Ezel – 2011
Photos: Curtis Eberhardt …McQueen: Helen Oppenheim
This waving beauty, Aimee Mullins, with hair by Ezel, holds three world records at the Paralympics, not letting the loss of both legs at age one stop her sprinting and long jumping.
The American athlete and actress was named by People Magazine one of the “50 Most Beautiful People” in 1997, and is a one-time Alexander McQueen model – he made special legs for her runway
appearance in his Spring 1999 show – photo here taken at his Metropolitan Museum of Art show, 2011 (bottom row.)
Ezel added clip-on extensions for this glam Marcel-waved look. More details, full credits, WorldGreats, Ezel, on www.helenoppenheim.com
Hair: Ezel, Chirospa Salon, Northport, NY … Makeup: Samantha Trinh … Fashion Styling: Marie Wilson … Photos: Curtis Eberhardt
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Think Punk – For 2013
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute exhibition due May 9 to August 11, 2013 is going to make punk hot again. Not that it ever really went away. With buzzed ‘dos already happening, I dread to think how some punk hair cuts will ruin many a lovely face!
Fashion is another story. Punk. Chaos to Couture will examine punk’s impact from its birth In the 1970s through its continuing influence on high fashion today.
There will be approximately 100 designs for men and women, by all the usual suspects. Original punk garments from the mid-1970s will be juxtaposed with recent, directional fashion showing how pailettes were replaced by safety pins, feathers by razor blades, bugle beads by studs. Presented as an immersive multimedia, multisensory experience, the clothes will be animated with period music videos and soundscaping audio techniques.
Organized thematically, gallery sections will include Rebel Heroes, Pavillions of Anarchy and Elegance, Punk Couture, D.I.Y. Style, La Mode Destroy, all organized by my favorite Curator, Andrew Bolton. No news yet on who will create the hair. Meanwhile, here’s some punk from the Met Museum’s 2006 Anglo Mania Exhibition with hair concoctions by the great Julien d’Ys to get your inspirational juices going..
Photo: © Helen Oppenheim
For more on the amazing Anglo Mania Exhibition, go the Museums on helenoppenheim.com –
and watch out punk influences everywhere…