1. Diana Vreeland was an American fashion columnist and editor.
35 Facts About Diana Vreeland
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Diana Vreeland worked for the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar and as editor-in-chief at Vogue, later becoming a special consultant to the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Diana Vreeland was named on the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1964.
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Diana Vreeland was the eldest daughter of an American socialite mother, Emily Key Hoffman, and a British stockbroker father, Frederick Young Dalziel.
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Diana Vreeland was a distant cousin of writer and socialite Pauline de Rothschild.
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Diana Vreeland had one younger sister, Alexandra, who later married Sir Alexander Davenport Kinloch, 12th Baronet.
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Diana Vreeland's family emigrated to the United States at the outbreak of World War I, moving to 15 East 77th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, where they became prominent society figures.
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Diana Vreeland was sent to dancing school as a pupil of Michel Fokine, the only Imperial Ballet master ever to leave Russia, and later of Louis Harvy Chalif.
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Diana Vreeland performed in Anna Pavlova's Gavotte at Carnegie Hall.
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On March 1,1924, Diana Dalziel married Thomas Reed Vreeland, a banker and international financier, at St Thomas Church in New York.
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Diana Vreeland often visited Paris, where she would buy her clothes, mostly from Chanel, whom she had met in 1926.
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Diana Vreeland was one of fifteen American women presented to King George V and Queen Mary at Buckingham Palace on May 18,1933.
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Diana Vreeland began her publishing career in 1936 as columnist for Harper's Bazaar.
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Diana Vreeland "discovered" the then-unknown Lauren Bacall during World War II.
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Ever focused on fashion, Diana Vreeland commented in 1946 that "[T]he bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb".
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In 1955, the Vreelands moved to a new apartment, which Diana had Billy Baldwin decorate entirely in red.
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Diana Vreeland said, "I want this place to look like a garden, but a garden in hell".
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In 1960, John F Kennedy became president and Vreeland advised First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in matters of style.
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In spite of being extremely successful, Diana Vreeland was paid a relatively small salary by the Hearst Corporation, which owned Harper's Bazaar.
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Diana Vreeland said that she was paid $18,000 a year from 1936 with a $1,000 raise, finally, in 1959.
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Diana Vreeland speculated that newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst's castle in San Simeon, California, "must have been where the Hearst money went".
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Diana Vreeland enjoyed the 1960s enormously because she felt that uniqueness was being celebrated.
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Gernreich had Peggy Moffitt model the suit in person for Diana Vreeland, who asked him why he conceived of the design.
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Diana Vreeland sent memos to her staff urging them to be creative.
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Diana Vreeland was chronically over-budget and, though good-natured, a tyrant in the office.
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Artist Greer Lankton created a life-size portrait doll of Diana Vreeland that is on display in the Costume Institute's library.
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The Diana Vreeland Estate is administered by her grandson, Alexander Vreeland, Frederick's son.
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The official Diana Vreeland website was launched in September 2011.
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Diana Vreeland was portrayed in the film Infamous by Juliet Stevenson.
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Diana Vreeland was portrayed in the film Factory Girl by Illeana Douglas.
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Diana Vreeland's life was documented in Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel.
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Diana Vreeland Parfums is featured in the opening scene of Ocean's 8.
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The film's director, William Klein, worked briefly for Diana Vreeland and has confirmed the outrageous character in Polly Maggoo was based on Diana Vreeland.
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Full Gallop ran at the Hampstead Theatre, London during September 2008, with Diana Vreeland again played by Mary Louise Wilson.
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Diana Vreeland has been impersonated twice as part of the Snatch Game challenge in RuPaul's Drag Race, by Robbie Turner in Season 8, and by Raja Gemini in Season 7 of All Stars.