Diana Vreeland

Last night when I got back from the beach I literally jumped on the bed from exhaustion, and his nose pulled from too much sun, I began to make zapping on TV ... and what I find on Rai5??
The documentary film about Diana Vreeland!!!!

I have always loved this woman!!!

Diana Vreeland was one of the few that has managed to impress through the pages of magazines, the evolution of an era of radical change as the 60s.

Born in Paris in 1903 by British father and American mother, he traveled a lot. At an early age he moved to America where you will return again in 1937 to collaborate and then became editor of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue U.S..
 

It was not the classic beautiful woman, indeed, but its innate elegance and taste for the beautiful crowned the queen of style.

 He knew what he believed was the elegance but not necessarily in good taste. "We all need a little 'tacky. It is the total lack of taste that I do not agree, "she always.
Carmel Snow, the editor of Harper's Bazaar spotted her at a dance at the St. Regis and offered to work for the magazine, where he began to engage in the legendary book "Why do not you?" with which spared no effort in giving advice to the eccentric gentleman like: "Wash your child's hair with champagne advanced".

Over the years he was editor in chief of Vogue, the magazine brought to levels unimaginable at the time. The pill, the mini-skirt, the Beatles had changed the vision of a decade. They were more middle-class families where she wanted to go to. The youth was his inspiration and the new woman was his most irreverent reader. For the first time the fashion from the street, but Diana Vreeland loved to stay one step ahead of the public. Before the start of the editors for the services of fashion she used to say: "Exaggerated and if you do not find what I asked you then inventatelo."

Diana suggested amendments to the designers, as Valentino or Chanel, which was a friend since 1926, she collaborated and launched many among the greatest photographers Irving Penn.

It was the first in the decider to put celebrities on magazine covers.
In 1971, fired by Vogue for the sharp decline in sales, he began to work for the Metropolitan Museum of Art until his death in New York in 1989.

In 2008 she received a star on Seventh Avenue's Fashion Walk of Fame.

If you want to learn more about this icon of fashion I recommend you watch the film directed by her niece Lisa Immordino Vreeland: "The Eye has to travel" and of reading books: "Diana Vreeland - autobiography-by Diana Vreeland or" Empress of fashion, a life of Diana Vreeland "By Amanda Mackenzie Stuart.

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R.