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Amanda Mackenzie Stuart

Empress of Fashion

“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.
596 printed pages
Original publication
2012
Publication year
2012
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  • Анастасия Ландерhas quoted10 years ago
    Diana refused to accept this. The freedom to do one’s own thing was wonderful, she asserted. “There’s no reason why you shouldn’t walk out of the house looking like a nun, if that is what you think is splen
  • Анастасия Ландерhas quoted10 years ago
    porcelain stoves brought back from Europe or beds from China gave the reader a feeling that a sentiment de luxe (and hence the perverse, the capricious) was still operating.”
  • Анастасия Ландерhas quoted10 years ago
    It can be seen that Mrs. Vreeland’s column was directed towards an imaginary upper-income bracket in a magazine whose circulation was largely due to the average American woman. The psychology of this, however, was shrewd and appropriate. At the height of a depression, to list such things as fanciful as

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