The late fashion editor Diana Vreeland — who pioneered a spirit of probing whimsy that inflects everything from the Met Gala to “The Devil Wears Prada” to TikTok — was once asked what advice she’d give to young designers.
“I think having a great sense of pleasure, and living a big life — as big as you can take, without interfering in any way with your work,” she said in her plummy transatlantic accent (can an influencer please make their whole personality bringing those back?). You can’t design in isolation, she said, “because there’s no heart in it. There’s no sort of razzle dazzle and excitement in it.”
That answer is the kind of thing that, these days, would become diluted into…