Although it sometimes seems as though Anna Wintour of the bob and big glasses has been in charge of Vogue for the magazine’s entire 120-year history, there have in fact been six other editors. The ...

Raconteuse, epigrammatist, and mythomaniac, peerless fashion editor Diana Vreeland (1903 – 89) might have loved words as much as she loved Balenciaga. As Harold Koda of the Met’s Costume Institute, ...

Raconteuse, epigrammatist, and mythomaniac, peerless fashion editor Diana Vreeland (1903-89) might have loved words as much as she loved Balenciaga. As Harold Koda of the Met’s Costume Institute, for ...

Very few women have contributed to fashion the way Diana Vreeland did during her tenure at Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. She launched supermodel Twiggy ...

Anyone who has lamented the difficulty of teaching old dogs new tricks could learn something from Diana Vreeland. Although she died in 1989, the fashion maven and iconoclast no doubt loved the idea of ...

Estate of Horst P. Horst / Art + Commerce / Courtesy Samuel Goldwyn Films Diana Vreeland was a towering figure who has continued to loom over the world of fashion long past her death in 1989. Hired on ...

“Style is everything,” said Diana Vreeland, who ruled fashion for decades with bursts of inspiration and a wave of her cigarette holder. For Vreeland, this was no handy catchphrase, but a mandate. Yet ...

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