Alexander Vreeland’s Favorite Things

Alexander Vreeland grew up sitting in his grandmother’s famously red living room, listening. It turns out that when your grandmother is Diana Vreeland—Harper’s Bazaar fashion editor, Vogue editor-in-chief, and the woman who advised Jackie Kennedy on how to dress a nation, you absorb a few things. After a career at Ralph Lauren and Giorgio Armani, Vreeland has spent the better part of the last decade stewarding her legacy: editing her Vogue memos into a Rizzoli volume, launching Diana Vreeland Parfums, and ensuring that the Empress of Fashion’s influence reaches generations who never got to sit in that red room. He does all of this, it turns out, with an extremely well-packed carry-on