Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel plot
"I can't take small bites from the fashion world; that feels like starving myself," said Diana Vreeland. The Empress of Fashion sat on her throne for fifty years in the mid-twentieth century as a columnist and editor-in-chief of the leading fashion magazines Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. Through her efforts for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she was able to elevate fashion to an art form. In Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Vreeland herself, who died in 1989, looks back on her eventful life, through archive interviews (often recorded in her flowery living room) and the reenacted dialogue between her and writer George Plimpton, who wrote Vreeland's memoirs in 1988. co-wrote. Moreover, the fine fleur of the fashion world speaks about the woman who so inspired them. The whole is richly illustrated, with pages from Vreeland's magazines and archive images. "I hate nostalgia", Vreeland opens the conversation with Plimpton, whereupon the writer asks her how she wants to tell her life story. Her answer is typical of her writing, her life and the film that Lisa Immordino Vreeland (married to Vreeland's grandson) made about it: "It must have some spice!"
