Diana Vreeland

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Diana Vreeland 1978 (photographer Lynn Gilbert)

Diana Vreeland (born September 29, 1903 in Paris , † August 22, 1989 in New York City ) was an American fashion designer , columnist , critic and editor in the department of fashion and design and a big name in New York . At times she served as editor-in-chief of the American edition of Vogue magazine .

Life

Born Diana Dalziel in Paris, she was the eldest daughter of a British father (Frederick Young Dalziel) and an American mother (Emily Key Hoffman). Vreeland came from an American high society family whose ancestors are said to date back to George Washington . The family moved to America at the end of the First World War .

Diana Dalziel (Vreeland) married the banker Thomas Reed Vreeland in 1924. After their wedding, the couple moved to London ; here Vreeland initially ran a women's fashion shop. a. Wallis Simpson (who later became Duchess of Windsor ) belonged to. She often visited Paris, where she met Coco Chanel and her friend, jewelry designer Suzanne Belperron .

In 1937 the Vreelands moved back to New York City. It was here that Diana Vreeland's career began as a columnist and editor for the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar . From 1963 to 1971 she was editor-in-chief of the American Vogue magazine. Her husband died 1967. 1971 was technical advisor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the field of fashion design .

Diana Vreeland had a sister (Alexandra Dalziel) and was the cousin of Pauline de Rothschild , a fashion and style icon of the 1960s who was often featured in numerous magazines for which Vreeland worked. Moreover counted Andy Warhol -class connections to Upper her circle because of their New Yorker.

literature

  • Eleanor Dwight: Diana Vreeland , New York, NY: Morrow, 2002, ISBN 0-688-16738-1
  • Diana Vreeland: DV , Da Capo Press, 2003, ISBN 0-306-81263-0 (paperback edition of the autobiography)

documentation

  • Diana Vreeland: The Eye has to Travel (United States 2011, directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Frédéric Tcheng)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Not verified. Various sources cite July 29, 1903 as the date of birth
  2. ↑ Baroin and Raulet: Suzanne Belperron . Antique Collectors Club, 2011, ISBN 978-1-85149-625-9 (p. 8, p. 109: “Diana Vreeland is a loyal friend of Suzanne Belperron”, p. 110: “She loved the designer's style”, P. 280: “The names of her friends Elsa Schiaparelli and Diana Vreeland appeared in their notebooks”).
  3. ↑ Imagine that! in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on January 13, 2013, page 43
personal data
SURNAME Vreeland, Diana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dalziel, Diana (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American fashion designer, critic, and editor
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1989
Place of death New York City