«Called the «High Priestess of Fashion», Diana Vreeland (1903-1989) was an American original whose impact on fashion and style is legendary. Beginning in 1936, when she became a fashion editor at Harper’s Bazaar, Vreeland established herself as a controversial visionary who had an astonishing ability to invent and discover fashion ideas, designers, personalities, and photographers. She continued to be a force in fashion throughout her long career, eventually becoming editor in chief of Vogue (1962-1971) and muse-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute (1972-1989). Vreeland was also a memorable writer with a talent for coining aphorisms, and her vivid personality and startling appearance made an impact on everyone she met.
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel chronicles fifty years of international fashion. For the first time, the book explores Vreeland’s life told through the work she created throughout her career. With over 350 images, including many famous photographs by Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, and other major fashion photographers, it is an intensely visual book that shows fashion as it was being invented, through the pages of magazines that shaped American taste with their superb fashion editing, photography, and art direction».
Diana Vreeland : the eye has to travel / Lisa Immordino Vreeland. New York : Abrams,cop. 2011.
Este libro que incorporamos a la biblioteca aporta una visión de la evolución de la moda en USA a lo largo de los años centrales del siglo XX a través de las revistas de moda más relevantes, como son Vogue y Harper’s Bazaar. Diana Vreeland, a través de su labor editorial al frente de estas publicaciones puede considerarse la guía que marcó el camino del mundo de la moda de la época de una manera magistral.
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