Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Diana Vreeland, born Diana Dalziel

French-born American Fashion Editor including Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Your world... you have created it for yourself, it is real to yourself, and therefore real to us... It is for you to discover yourself in a world where, alone and free, you may dream the possible dream: that the wondrous is real, because that is how you feel it to be, how you wish it to be... and how you wish it into being."

"The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it."