Style — all who have it share one thing: originality.” So said Diana Vreeland, the magazine editor and elegantiae arbiter who never met a leopard print she didn’t like and preferred people with a little ‘bad taste’ to those with no taste at all. Though Vreeland’s vocal passion for aesthetic authenticity has been immortalised in documentaries, retrospectives and copies of 1960s Vogue, decades on, individuality has by and large been replaced by sameness; personal style has been sucked into the echo chamber of social media.
Marie Olsson Nylander is a woman whose (House Dreams Sicily), which followed her and husband William as they renovated a pink 18th-century Italian palazzo.
