Diana Vreeland

Name: Diana Vreeland
Author: Eleanor Dwight
ISBN: 0688167381

by Eleanor Dwight

"Diana Vreeland was the fashion editor of the twentieth century. She had an incredible aura of glamour and a genius for enlivening life with enticing fantasy. Diana Vreeland goes behind the scenes to tell her story - how, with innate talent and hard work, the imaginative and ambitious daughter of an old New York society family became a legendary arbiter of fashion and style. It reveals the growth of her professional prowess and details her personal history, as it captures Vreeland's pizzazz, humor, flair and flamboyant personality.". "This book is illustrated with more than three hundred illustrations, photographs and drawings, many by the best fashion photographers of the time - Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Irving Penn, Cecil Beaton and Brassai.…

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Justine Picardie

"This book has wonderful photographs and is beautifully produced. Vreeland was a hugely influential fashion columnist and editor, working at Harper’s Bazaar and then American Vogue . She covered the great fashion era from the 30s to the 70s. Get the weekly Five Books newsletter She worked as a consultant for the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art after Vogue fired her in 1971. She put on some incredible exhibitions that really showed fashion as art – that theme again. The pictures in the book from the 1973 Balenciaga exhibition are amazing. The director of the Met at the time thought museums should show things in new ways and push boundaries. He recognised that Diana Vreeland had the same vision. She was very forward-thinking."

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