Diana Vreeland (1903-1989) was the daughter of an American mother and British father. She was married and mother of two sons, living in London and New York, socially very well connected and a loyal customer and friend of Coco Chanel in Paris. Diana Vreeland was known to be very ugly and witty- she had jolie et laide. From 1937 she run her column in New York's Harper's Bazaar titled „Why don't you?“ and became then the magazine's fashion editor. In the early 1960s she advised Jacqueline Kennedy on how to dress and style. In 1963 she joined the American Vogue as editor-in-chief. 1971 she consulted The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY. Artist Greer Lankton dedicated a life size doll to her that is still on display. She wrote her autobiography D.V. in 1984. If you would like to indulge yourself in the world of Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart and Edie Sedgwick, this is the right book for you, with lots of timeless statements when it comes to matters of style, "elegance (is refusal)" and emotions - Beautiful and ugly!
(Photo: Diane Vreeland, 1980, Bernard Gotfryd, Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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