I just finished watching the documentary about Dianna Vreeland’s life, The Eye Has To Travel and I grew an even bigger affection for this talent. I want to watch this movie again and again. Her love for fashion and adventure is contagious. Vreeland was a stylemaker, the Vogue editor in the 1960's and, well, a superstar of her era.  She had a special passion for life, and she created many stars- she would fixate her affections to those she found special and bring their talent to the world.  She came to the magazine at a unique time in history and reinvented women not just in fashion's eye, but in the world. She celebrated the models and found their unique qualities and personalities to be as important as their looks. She talks through the movie about letting your eye travel in design and editing, and she was one of the first editors to travel to exotic locations for the editorials often showing modelings riding white elephants in India and or perched on the pyramids in Egypt.  She took a fantastical look at fashion and it morped into much more then  clothing.

After finishing the movie, I had this impulsive idea to fill my home with Vreeland Red. Throughout the movie you see Vreelend with her nails painted this color, lounging on her sofa ensconced in this vibrant red. The color red she espoused is a a specific tone of Red plunked right in between orange and purple and bold yet not garish. Heck, she decorated an entire room in her home from floor to ceiling in this hue, hence the phrase Vreeland Red was born. Throughout the movie she'd finds respite from her busy life lounging on her sofa ensconced in this red glow.  So, I say today let’s celebrate this lovely hue- it brings a sense of daring, a sense of adventure to to our personal style, and our home. With red, a little goes a long way so if you don't feel as adventurous as Mrs. Vreeland, just a splash will do.  Red is a difficult color to get right but Vreeland Red is special so hone in on this tone of red.  It's vibrant and jewel-like yet it holds a mellow tone of sorts.  

As many of you know I am the creative director and owner of root cellar designs, a home textile company.  We design fabric and wallpaper and finished products to the interior design industry.  We design our textiles in many hues, and as a textile designer I find red to be a particularly difficult color to get right.  So I designed a specific red we are calling Vreeland Red for root cellar designs and it's our version of her favorite hue. You can now find our fabric and wallpaper in our collections in this special red we named just for Diana.  

Check out my Red Board for more ideas.