Diana Vreeland: Empress of Fashion by Amanda MacKenzie Stuart (English) Hardcove

Description: Diana Vreeland by Amanda MacKenzie Stuart Portrays a visionary: a fearless innovator who inspired designers, models, photographers and artists, and who reinvented the way we think about style and where we go to think about it. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Born of a British father and American mother in Belle Epoque Paris, Diana Dalziel Vreeland grew up amid the fashionable of New Yorks Upper East Side. With a famously alluring mother and a classically beautiful sister, the young Diana often felt isolated and unloved. But she was saved from her unhappy childhood by her audacious imagination as well as the grit and determination that would shape her extraordinary life.Described by an admirer as the High Druidess of fashion, the Supreme Pontiff, Perpetual Curate and Archpresbyter of elegance, the Vicaress of Style, Diana Vreeland is the cloth from which twenty-first-century fashion editors are cut. Talent-spotted by legendary editor Carmel Snow, Diana joined Harpers Bazaar in 1936, where her pizzazz and singular point of view quickly made her a major creative force in fashion. During her time at Harpers Bazaar and later as the editor-in-chief of Vogue, the self-styled Empress of fashion launched Twiggys career, advised Jackie Kennedy, and enjoyed the full swing of sixties London. In Dianas Vogue, women were not only offered shockingly short skirts and silver hipster pants: even more radically, they were encouraged to resist fashion orders from on high, and to use their own imaginations in re-creating themselves - much as Vreeland spent her own life doing. In 1971 Diana was fired from Vogue. She reluctantly accepted a new position for herself at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as Special Consultant to the Costume Institute, only to reveal a new dimension to her brilliance. Her first show, on the work of designer Cristobal Balenciaga, drew more than 150,000 people to the museum, and the show that followed smashed all the record books. The Metropolitan was stunned, and todays blockbuster exhibition was born.In this book, the first full-length biography of Diana Vreeland, Amanda Mackenzie Stuart portrays a visionary: a fearless innovator who inspired designers, models, photographers and artists. Vreeland reinvented the way we think about style and where we go to find it. As an editor, curator and wit, Diana Vreeland made a lasting mark and remains an icon for generations of fashion lovers. Notes The first full length biography of the editor, curator and wit, Diana Vreeland, who made a lasting mark and remains an icon for fashion lovers. It is both an intimate portrait and a vibrant celebration of this influential woman of the 20th century. 30 photos. Author Biography Amanda Mackenzie Stuart worked as a screenwriter and independent film producer for a number of years before publishing her first biography, the critically acclaimed Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daugher and Mother in the Gilded Age. She lives in Oxford, UK. Table of Contents 1. Paris Opening • 2. The Girl • 3. Becoming Mrs. Vreeland • 4. Pizzazz • 5. New Look • 6. Youthquake • 7. Wilder Shores • 8. Old Clothes • 9. Endgame Review Mackenzie Stuart has written a stylish, funny, fond and vivid book. The only puzzle is that a subject so irresistible as Vreeland should have gone without a good biography for quite so long - Sunday TimesImpeccably researched and beautifully written - Daily Mail (Book of the Week)The research for this book has been exhaustive, but Mackenzie Stuart wears it lightly … she writes movingly about Vreelands marriage without any intrusive psychoanalysis, and her warmth, enthusiasm and peculiar genius come through in entertaining anecdotes and marvellous, very italicized, quotes - The SpectatorPaints an enthralling picture of a mesmerising character who left an indelible print on 20th-century fashion - Hello! Promotional An intimate portrait and a vibrant celebration of one of the most influential women of the 20th century Details ISBN0500516812 Year 2013 ISBN-10 0500516812 ISBN-13 9780500516812 Media Book Pages 448 Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd Subtitle Empress of Fashion Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 746.92092 Format Hardcover Short Title Diana Vreeland Language English UK Release Date 2013-02-18 NZ Release Date 2013-02-18 Illustrations With 30 illustrations Author Amanda MacKenzie Stuart Publication Date 2013-02-18 Audience General AU Release Date 2013-01-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:151519028;

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