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August 23rd, 2007

IN her memoir, “DV,” Diana Vreeland recalled the time she saw Josephine Baker breeze into the back seat of her Rolls-Royce with Chiquita, her pet cheetah, in tow. According to description, Baker was beautifully dressed in a short black skirt and a barely there Vionnet shirt — “no sleeves, no back, no

IN her memoir, “DV,” Diana Vreeland recalled the time she saw Josephine Baker breeze into the back seat of her Rolls-Royce with Chiquita, her pet cheetah, in tow. According to description, Baker was beautifully dressed in a short black skirt and a barely there Vionnet shirt — “no sleeves, no back, no front, just crossed bars on the bias.” But the pièce de résistance was her animal accessory. “I had never seen anything like it,” Vreeland wrote. “It was speed at its best, and style.”

Source:www.nytimes.com

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