It’s actually a collection of loosely structured remembrances, all told in the most enthusiastic style. To call the book an autobiography is a bit of a stretch of the genre. She actually went on more about how she cured a friend of the hiccups than she talked about an event that changed the course of her life! Interestingly, and tellingly, she says very little about her dismissal, and she never mentions Mirabella, a woman which whom she worked closely for ten years, by name. After reading the memoir of Grace Mirabella, I decided I must get another perspective on the story of how the two women worked together at Vogue, and of the fallout after Vreeland’s firing in 1971. With the release of a new documentary and book about her life, Diana Vreeland, The Eye Has to Travel, much has been written about the longtime editor of first Harper’s Bazaar, and then Vogue. As if anyone could come close to being Ms. I adore this book…it’s fun, fun, fun! Yes, it’s HUGE!īut then I realized I could never keep up that kind of energy through 500 words or so, and I decided to just be myself. It would have started something like this: I was very tempted to write this post in the style of Diana Vreelend.
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