Allure book diana vreeland biography

“Vreeland – with a V!

I say whenever I have to give my name over a telephone.

Allure book diana vreeland biography

V as in ‘victory’! V as in ‘violent’!” These were the words uttered by none other than Diana Vreeland, a woman who can be instantly recognised by her incendiary scarlet initials and strikingly beauty. Vreeland made a name for herself in the forties, alongside Carmel Snow, Richard Avedon and Alexey Brodovitch at Harper’s Bazaar, before taking the reins at Vogue and ushering in a pulsating era of fantasy, opulence, exoticism, youth culture and out-there fashion.

She was fired a decade later and her magazine of voracious visual splendour, each issue of which would explore a fabulously all-consuming theme, began to veer towards the more comme