biography
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Vreeland, Diana (Dalziel)
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (c.1901–89)
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| biography:
| Fashion journalist, born in Paris, France. The daughter of wealthy parents, she moved to New York as a teenager. She dispensed extravagant advice to snobs in her famous ‘Why Don't You...’ in Harper's Bazaar (1936). As fashion editor of Harper's (1937–62), she became ‘the high priestess of style’, a trend-setter who coined the term ‘beautiful people’ and cultivated her reputation for wit. She was editor-in-chief of Vogue (1962–71) and, after her retirement, mounted major annual fashion exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum, New York. |
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