Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland, (Hardcover)

from Kellswitch

Diana Vreeland was a larger than life personality, creative, outgoing, inspirational to many and frustrating and difficult and threatening to others and it was fascinating to read about the life and steps she took that brought her to the pinnacle of the fashion world. I may have come across her n...

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Surprisingly entertaining and informative - lovely passages about the transitions in the US, as reflected in fashion, in the 60s and 70s. I expected to be underwhelmed, but I think this autobiography will stick with me for a long time.

from etxgardener

Before the Devil wore Prada, she wore Balenciaga and was known as DV, the divine Diana Vreeland. With little formal education, but with plenty of style and pizazz, Ms. Vreeland moved from society wife to fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar to Editor-in-Chief of Vogue to curator of the Costume Insti...