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    Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland

    By Amanda Mackenzie Stuart

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    “The first comprehensive bio of legendary magazine editor Diana Vreeland is a can’t-put-down read. Stuart separates facts from “faction” (Vreeland’s term for her dramatic exaggerations) and gets to the core of the fashion pioneer.” — People

    Diane von Furstenberg once called Diana Vreeland a "beacon of fashion for the twentieth century." Now, in this definitive biography by acclaimed biographer Amanda Mackenzie Stuart, is the story of the iconic fashion editor as you've never seen her before.

    From her career at the helms of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, to her reign as consultant to the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vreeland had an enormous impact on the fashion world and left a legacy so enduring that must-have style guides still quote her often wild and always relevant fashion pronouncements.

    With access to Vreeland's personal material and photographs, Amanda Mackenzie Stuart has written the ultimate behind-the-scenes look at Diana Vreeland and her world—a jet-setting social scene that included Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli, Yves Saint Laurent, Hubert de Givenchy, Oscar de la Renta, Lauren Bacall, Penelope Tree, Lauren Hutton, Andy Warhol, Mick and Bianca Jagger, and the Kennedys. Filled with gorgeous color photographs of her work, Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland is an intimate and surprising look at an icon who made a lasting mark on the world of couture.

    Editor's Note

    From Vogue to the Met...

    In a time before Anna Wintour, Diana Vreeland helmed the editorial offices of the iconic Vogue Magazine. Her life's work, revealed in this carefully researched and personal biography, was also the theme for 1993's Met Gala–fitting, as Vreeland consulted for the Met's Costume Institute in her later career.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateDec 4, 2012
    ISBN9780062098023
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    • 5/5
      A pretty good book. At first I thought that the authors style was lame, but after Diana went to work it picked uoconsiderably and stayed exciting to the end. The sections on Harpers, Vogue and the Museum are all wonderful.The author knows that Vreeland was a consummate liar about her childhood and goes far to disprove all herravubgs.
    • 4/5
      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.
    • 4/5
      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 name in past readings about the fashion world but before this book I never really knew anything about her or her impact in fashion and pop culture of her time, even on the culture of today’s world. The author does a very good job bringing her past to life and creating a sympathetic but not overly romanticized biography, letting us see her weaknesses as well as her strengths to light. The thing I really had trouble with was when the author described all the clothes from photos shoots or that Diana helped influenced but did not provide photographs of these items, it really made the story drag and hard to read in those sections. All of those lists of specific pieces of clothes and styles could have been skipped easily and it would have improved the story greatly. Overall I enjoyed this book, the topic of Diana Vreeland was fascinating and the look at the changes in fashion and society as a whole through the lens of her life was very interesting and educational. I find history like this to be absorbed easier through such a lens as a single life time, it make it more direct and concrete feeling.
    • 3/5
      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 Institute at the4 Metropolitan Museum of Art. Along the way she advanced the careers of designers, photographers & fashion models and changed the way Americans and, perhaps the world, looked at fashion.Even if you're not interested in the fashion world you can't help being fascinated by this extraordinary woman. A breezy read from beginning to end.