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Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel

Two projects, a book & a film, both with the same name, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel chronicle 50 years of international fashion & Vreeland’s rich life.

Called the “High Priestess of Fashion,” Diana Vreeland (1903–1998) was an American original whose impact on fashion and style was legendary. Beginning in 1936, when she became a fashion editor at Harper’s Bazaar, Vreeland established herself as a controversial visionary with an astonishing ability to invent and discover fashion ideas, designers, personalities, & photographers. She was a memorable writer with a vivid personality & a talent for coining aphorisms.

May 27

May 18
“Vogue always did stand for people’s lives. I mean, a new dress doesn’t get you anywhere; it’s the life you’re living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later.” -Diana Vreeland

http://dianavreeland.com/page/posts/op/read/id/133

“Vogue always did stand for people’s lives. I mean, a new dress doesn’t get you anywhere; it’s the life you’re living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later.” -Diana Vreeland

http://dianavreeland.com/page/posts/op/read/id/133


May 14

Apr 20
“There’s only one very good life and that’s the life you know you want and you make it yourself”. 
Diana Vreeland
http://dianavreeland.com/page/posts/op/read/id/130

“There’s only one very good life and that’s the life you know you want and you make it yourself”. 

Diana Vreeland

http://dianavreeland.com/page/posts/op/read/id/130


Apr 18

Watch the interview between Peter Simek and Lisa at the Dallas Film Festival on the D Magazine FrontRow Stage. She talks about the film and Diana Vreeland. 



Apr 17
Due to Diana Vreeland’s close relationship with Jackie Kennedy, Harper’s Bazaar published the first picture of the presidential couple in 1961. Jackie Kennedy wrote to DV:”Dear Diana, Everyone is wondering why we chose Harper’s Bazaar and they invent a million reasons. And no one says the real one, which is you”. 
Photographs by Richard Avedon, 1961- Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel pg 117http://dianavreeland.com/page/posts/op/read/id/129

Due to Diana Vreeland’s close relationship with Jackie Kennedy, Harper’s Bazaar published the first picture of the presidential couple in 1961. 

Jackie Kennedy wrote to DV:
Dear Diana, 
Everyone is wondering why we chose Harper’s Bazaar and they invent a million reasons. And no one says the real one, which is you”. 

Photographs by Richard Avedon, 1961- Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel pg 117
http://dianavreeland.com/page/posts/op/read/id/129


Apr 11
“Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.”
Diana Vreeland on The Dick Cavett ShowMay 1978
Photographs by Richard Avedon, Pg 96-97 in Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travelhttp://dianavreeland.com/page/posts/op/read/id/128 

“Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.”

Diana Vreeland on The Dick Cavett Show
May 1978

Photographs by Richard Avedon, Pg 96-97 in Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel
http://dianavreeland.com/page/posts/op/read/id/128 


Apr 2

Mar 29
“Style— all who have it share one thing: originality.”
-Diana Vreeland
http://dianavreeland.com/page/posts/op/read/id/127

“Style— all who have it share one thing: originality.”

-Diana Vreeland

http://dianavreeland.com/page/posts/op/read/id/127


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