Diana Vreeland's best-selling autobiography takes us with her around the globe in the company of royalty, actors, artists, and designers. Throughout, her vivacious conversation is peppered with glittering stories and outrageous pronouncements, displaying fully the talent for perception and persuasion that made her the empress of chic. Here she tells how Buffalo Bill taught her to ride, describes how she redefined the standards of attractiveness with the quirky models she brought to Vogue in the sixties, disparages her own looks, relates her search for “the perfect red,” and discourses on the nature of elegance. Whatever her subject, from backaches to nostalgia, from Paris to New York, from marriage to dinner parties, from Clark Gable to Swifty Lazar, you never want her to stop. For D.V. is unique among memories: a conversation as pleasurable as a perfect wardrobe.

Product Description: Called the “High Priestess of Fashion,” Diana Vreeland (1903–1989) was an American original whose impact on fashion and style was legendary. Beginning in 1936, when she became a fashion editor at Harper’s Bazaar, Vreeland established herself as a controversial visionary with an astonishing ability to invent and discover fashion ideas, designers, personalities, and photographers...read more

The inimitable fashion editor, arbiter, and curator recounts, in often-outrageous detail, the story of her luxurious and eventful life and profiles the celebrities she has known, from Chanel and Buffalo Bill to Clark Gable and Swifty Lazar

The editor-at-large for Vogue describes his odyssey from North Carolina to the heights of the fashion world, reflecting on the roles of two important women in his life--his maternal grandmother, Bennie Frances Davis, and Diana Vrelland, Vogue editor-in-chief and his mentor--and how they shaped his dreams, taste, and character. 75,000 first printing.

Complemented by more than three hundred photographs and illustrations, a portrait of the fashion editor discusses her work with Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and numerous celebrities and assesses her seminal role in shaping the fashion history of the twentieth century.

Presents a collection of fashion and decorating ideas taken from the pages of Harper's Bazaar along with a history of Diana Vreeland's years at the magazine. (view table of contents)

The editor of Vogue shares beauty and style secrets with great detail and humor, ranging from tips on the best lipstick to a tour of various stores and salons on the ultimate shopping trip.