Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel [Hardcover] by Lisa Immordino Vreeland
I can’t wait for this book to come out ! “
‘Lisa Immordino Vreeland is breathing new life into Diana Vreeland’s legacy.
In the coming weeks, a documentary titled “Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel,” along with a coffee-table book, will be released, followed by a travelling exhibition that kicks off at the Fortuny Museum in Venice in March. All are expected to stoke interest in the legendary fashion editor, whose career could be summed up in three stages: fashion editor of Harper’s Bazaar from 1937 to 1962; editor in chief of Vogue from 1962 to 1971, and a special consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute from 1972 until her death 17 years later.
Immordino Vreeland, the late editor’s granddaughter-in-law, directed and produced the documentary, which will make its debut at the Venice Film Festival Sept. 3. She also wrote the coffee-table book which will hit bookstores Oct. 1 “As soon as I started research for the book, I said to myself, ‘I should be working on a documentary,” said Immordino Vreeland, a first-time filmmaker. Married to Alexander Vreeland, the grandson of Diana Vreeland, the author-director felt the fashion editor’s life story was one that had to be told. She believes that the only “two great books” that have ever been done on her were written by Diana herself: “Allure” and “D.V.” her autobiography. “She had a life that was rich with so many different experiences. People need to know what this life was about,” she said to WWD.
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel chronicles 50 years of international fashion and Vreeland’s rich life. With more than 350 illustrations, including original magazine spreads and many famous photographs, this intensely visual book shows fashion as it was being invented, and how Vreeland shaped American taste through her superb vision.
$34 Publisher: Abrams (October 1, 2011 Amazon.com
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