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	Diana Vreeland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Diana Vreeland (July 29, 1906 – August 22, 1989) was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion.
		Born Diana Dalziel in Paris, France, she was the eldest daughter of a British father, Frederick Young Dalziel (d.
		Diana's family emigrated to the United States of America at the outbreak of World War I, and moved to 15 East 77th Street in New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diana_Vreeland (338 words)

	Diana Vreeland by Nick Davies
		Diana's colourful personality and uncompromising professional attitude would also set the blueprint that many of her modern contemporaries strive to emulate.
		Always the forerunner of new ideas, Diana Vreeland was the first to explore new creative techniques and encouraged her team to think laterally.
		Over her twenty seven years at Harpers Bazaar, Diana Vreeland's innovative ideas introduced fashion trends to mainstream womenswear that are still evidently practised today; the thong sandal, sportswear pieces worn as everyday wear such as the snood, and many more.
	www.fashionfinders.co.uk /DianaVreeland.html (877 words)

	Diana Vreeland -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Diana Vreeland (July 29, 1906, (additional info and facts about Paris, France) Paris, France - August 22, 1989) was a noted columnist and editor in the field of (The latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior) fashion.
		Born Diana Dalziel, she was the eldest daughter of British father, Frederick Young Dalziel (d.
		She was presented to King George VI and Queen Mary at (The London residence of the British sovereign) Buckingham Palace on May 18, 1933.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/di/diana_vreeland.htm (286 words)

	Diana Vreeland
		Diana Dalziel Vreeland (July 29, 1906, Paris, France - August 22, 1989) is a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion.
		Diana Vreeland was born Diana Dalziel, the daughter of British father, Frederick Young Dalziel (d.
		Diana's family came to the United States of America at the outbreak of World War I, and moved to 15 East 77th Street in New York, quickly becoming prominent members of New York society.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/d/di/diana_vreeland.html (254 words)

	Chapter Excerpt: Allure by Diana Vreeland and Christopher Hemphill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Vreeland at lunch while she told me a story set in the Black Forest in the 1930's involving Baron de Meyer, the first great fashion photographer, his wife, Olga, and an extraordinary room that opened up, as in a dream, where it was least expected.
		Vreeland continues to admire and remember, although she is aware that the term itself is an anachronism.
		Vreeland understands, demands more artifice than the impression of naturalness, and in the text that accompanies these pictures I have combined phrases of hers separated by years in time, using a method not unlike the draconian retouching she describes at Vogue when she would combine parts of different mannequins' bodies in a single picture.
	www.twbookmark.com /jrun/books/12/0821227890/chapter_excerpt14957.html (1839 words)

	Hint Fashion Magazine -- Shelf Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In "Diana Vreeland", a new lavishly illustrated biography by Eleanor Dwight, the iconic style arbiter's life is examined thoroughly: From her ugly duckling childhood to her powerful reign as editor of American Vogue and her triumphs as a special consultant to the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute.
		Vreeland's dramatic and eccentric personality coupled with her highly original personal style and uncanny ability for transforming fashion editorial into high art made her a formidable force in magazine publishing.
		Vreeland can be credited with redefining the role of the fashion editor, thanks to her Herculean work ethic—she always traveled with dozens of trunks containing hundreds of accessories for photo shoots—and it is a career model that is religiously followed by fashion stylists and editors today.
	www.hintmag.com /shelflife/fall02/shelflife2.php (996 words)

	Vreeland, Diana on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Becoming Diana Vreeland: in this excerpt from Eleanor Dwight's new biography of the legendary fashion editor, a homely, unloved girl transforms herself into the queen of American style.
		Diana Vreeland, fashion's formidable first lady, set the styles for generations.
		Versace channels Vreeland: Donatella Versace matches wits with the formidable late fashion diva Diana Vreeland by re-creating her "Why Don't You...?" column.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/V/Vreeland.asp (385 words)

	Diana Vreeland
		Diana Vreeland was the twentieth century’s greatest arbiter of style and elegance.
		Diana Vreeland can be described as a wellborn social butterfly that dabbled in the world of fashion, exercising her unique ability to give the fantasy starved American woman whatever it was she wanted to see.
		Diana Vreeland was a visionary in the world of style, elegance and fashion.
	www.canadianinteriordesign.com /kwi/diana_vreeland.htm (969 words)

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	Divas - The Site / Society Divas / Lillie Langtry
		With her heavily rouged cheekbones, mile-long lashes and red lacquer everywhere - trademarks that identified her for decades - one could imagine they were in the presence of a modern Watteau, reality presented to the viewer with a gentle caress.
		Though Newhouse had one of his flunkies let Vreeland know her services were no longer required, Vreeland apparently wished to hear the news from Si himself.
		Vreelands professional life – a final chance to retain a shred of dignity which had been so callously ripped away.
	www.divasthesite.com /Society_Divas/Diana_Vreeland.htm (1286 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Diana Vreeland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Diana Vreeland (1906-89) was fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar, editor in chief at Vogue, and finally special consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute.
		Diana Vreeland was a homely girl born into a beautiful family; in fact, her mother once told her, "It's too bad.
		At once authoritative and breezy, Diana Vreeland tells the tale of the woman who helped dress Jackie O, ran the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum and used her iron will to shape American dress from the '40s through the '70s.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0688167381 (1552 words)

	Colm Tóibín
		The chief bottle-washer in this world came by the name of Diana Vreeland who worked as fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar for twenty-five years and then was editor-in-chief of Vogue from 1962 to 1971 before becoming the first special consultant to the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until her death in 1989.
		Diana returned to her desk.' She called a model agency one day looking for a girl with ‘hair (ital), long, lustrous (ital) hair.
		Vreeland was almost sixty when she became editor of Vogue in 1962; she could easily have spent the next ten years foisting her snobbery and general foolishness in full colour on the American public while ignoring the bewildering revolution in taste going on outside.
	www.colmtoibin.com /essays/lrb/CTLRB2004.html (3264 words)

	The Divine Mrs. V
		As a child, Diana was told by her mother, "It's too bad that you have such a beautiful sister and that you are so extremely ugly and so terribly jealous of her.
		When Avedon first met Vreeland, he was standing at the doorway of her long, narrow office, at the far end of which stood a model in a stiff wedding dress.
		Vreeland returned to her desk, looked up at me for the first time and said, 'Aberdeen, Aberdeen, doesn't it make you want to cry?' Well, it did.
	newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/shopping/fashion/features/n_7930 (1147 words)

	OnMilwaukee.com -- Business listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		With a particular interest in the exploration of the feminine voice, RTW is rooted firmly in the humanistic tradition and in its desire to move and speak to audiences.
		Full Gallop is a hilarious tell-all evening with the incomparable Diana Vreeland, the fashion icon who stood at the center of American Style for five decades.
		The story is set at a turning point in Vreeland’s life—the day she has been unceremoniously fired as the editor of Vogue magazine.
	www.onmilwaukee.com /business/print.html?rid=565 (422 words)

	Full Gallop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Diana Vreeland was a force of the unnatural: "I ADORE ARTIFICE," she declares in the capital letters that make up much of Full Gallop, the delicious one-person play about "the sultana of style" that's now having its area premiere at Merrimack Repertory Theatre.
		Here she spends the day blabbing to the audience (just who we are is never clear) about her life of style while tilting at crises relating to the planned soirée, for which there are enough flowers to field a funeral but no dinner save saltines.
		Vreeland can't remember half the names she drops, but she remembers every detail -- from the cheetah on a leash to the white dress cut on the bias -- that contributed to Josephine Baker's allure some long-ago afternoon in Paris.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/theater/99/01/14/FULL_GALLOP.html (645 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2002024382
		In the early 1960s Jackie Kennedy wrote to Diana Vreeland: "you are and always will be my fashion mentor." Vreeland helped the young First Lady create her famous "Jackie look" which was imitated all over America.
		We see the ambitious inge;nue marrying the strikingly handsome Reed Vreeland in 1924, and embarking on a six-year sojourn in England where during frequent trips to Paris she learned how to change herself into a soigne;e and sophisticated young matron.
		When Diana Vreeland became blind before her death in 1989, she said it was because she had seen so many beautiful things in her life.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hc042/2002024382.html (836 words)

	VOGUE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Diana Vreeland was born Diana Dalziel, the daughter of English father and an American mother.
		Vreeland Came to the United States of America at the outbreak of World War I. In 1924, she married Thomas Reed Vreeland, who died in 1967 and had two sons.
		Vreeland lived in London until 1937, when her husband's job brought them back to New York.
	www.dtmagazine.com /cmopg1924/vogue1.html (340 words)

	vacar101398 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The uninhibited actress, who made her screen debut in ''Midnight Cowboy'' in 1969, is in town to play the high priestess of the fashion world, editor Diana Vreeland, in ''Full Gallop'' - and to support the work of Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati while she's at it.
		Vreeland's emphasis was on the fashion of youth.
		Vreeland's excesses and a drop in ad revenues at Vogue led to her firing.
	www.cincypost.com /living/1998/vacar101398.html (493 words)

	Books : D.V. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		There is a paucity of photos, which is a shame, because Vreeland loved the camera as much as it obviously loved her strong, aristocratic features.
		Diana Vreeland was one of those people whom we call a force of nature.
		People may say she is self-absorbed and selfish, but from reading her book anyone can see how generous and affectionate she is. This glimpse into the life of a famous, tasteful, and extremely rich socialite and editor of two magazines will take you away from the dreary streets of everyday life.
	www.actingbooks.net /0306812630/D.V..html (482 words)

	Amazon.com: Diana Vreeland: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		When a guest arrived at the Park Avenue apartment of Diana Vreeland, he was greeted in the alcove before the front door by a full-length painting of the glamorous but fey young Diana in a pink cotton gingham and white organdy dress under a green parasol.
		Vreeland is like a fine wine in that she grows better with time.
		Vreeland herself noted that it took her many years to come to terms with her mother.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0688167381?v=glance (2860 words)

	Strand Bookstore: Allure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Vreeland, a fashion world icon, is drawn outin interviews "transformed into a bewitching text." An incomparable landmark work, it is reissued here for the first time since its initial publication.
		From the publisher Allure is Vreeland's personal selection of images by some of the century's greatest photographers, featuring some of the most celebrated personalities of the era including Garbo, Nureyev and Callas.
		As fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue, and creator of dozens of famous exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, Diana Vreeland energized and inspired the world of fashion for 50 years.
	www.strandbooks.com /profile?isbn=0821227890 (208 words)

	Tobin Levy Book Reviews: Japanese Box, Halston, Why Don't You & Richard Avedon: Made in France
		In Diana Vreeland: Bazaar Years, former Bazaar art director John Esten has compiled 100 of the fashion iconoclast's infamous recommendations.
		In the book, Vreeland’s columns are accompanied by classic images taken by many of the photographers she championed during her tenure at the publication, renowned photographers such as Munkacsi, Dahl-Wolfe, Horst, and Avedon.
		You could do as Vreeland suggests in her December 1936 column, and "give [them] a satin-finished platinum box with all the diamonds, rubies, and sapphires in the world scooped together and smeared in a lovely design on the lid?" Or, you could just buy them a copy of Diane Vreeland: Bazaar Years.
	www.lookonline.com /newbookreview-5.html (1104 words)

	greer1
		The doll then lived in Anna's Chelsea apartment where she periodically changed Diana's outfits to suit her whims.
		Vreeland would be happier and better cared for if she were donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art where the real Mrs.
		Vreeland had spent 17 illustrious years as the maverick curator of their costume collection.
	www.geocities.com /greerlankton/greer1.html (129 words)

	Book Review
		The quality of the footage was poor and Vreeland, in shadow, could barely be seen, but the strength of her personality could not be missed.
		Names darling!") Diana Vreeland, writing about Josephine Baker, Chanel and Clark Gable (among others) is, in a sense, a poet of the kind only the 20th century could understand.
		Diana Vreeland was not known for supporting American designers, but there were a few Americans she did feature in her magazine, and lavishly.
	www.lookonline.com /book.html (946 words)

	Interview: The Who's Who Of Who's Dressing You - fashion designer Diana Vreeland - Interview - Brief Article
		DIANA VREELAND: There is a Who's Who, you know.
		Interview's Karl Plewka sat down recently with Vreeland protegee, longtime editor, and fashIon champ Polly Mellen, to get a current point of view of where fashion is today, and where it may be heading.
		Vreeland up there, and Mummy, are cheering [me on] because I'm really a late bloomer.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1285/is_10_29/ai_56749877 (705 words)

	Visionaire #37: Vreeland Memos
		In fact, many necklines could have been helped by pearls worn inside the dress that show inside the cutaway sides and back of most ordinary dresses on top , I speak of this very often--and as soon as I stop speaking the pearls disappear., Nothing gives the luxury of pearls.
		Diana Vreeland's memos to the editors, bookers, and assistants on her staff at Vogue record her obsessions and her passionate prodding.
		The memos were dictated to one of her often replaced secretaries, usually from home in the morning or, after twelve, at her office in the Graybar Building on Lexington Avenue, with its faux leopard-skin carpet and red walls covered with photographs and clippings neatly lined up and attached with pushpins.
	www.artbook.com /1888645350.html (293 words)

	Vogue magazine
		The current editor-in-chief of the American edition of Vogue is Anna Wintour, famous for her perfect bob and her habit of wearing sunglasses inside.
		Diana Vreeland was born Diana Dalziel, the daughter of English father, Frederick Young Dalziel (d.
		On March 1, 1924, she married Thomas Reed Vreeland at St. Thomas's church in New Yok.
	www.jahsonic.com /Vogue.html (410 words)

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