As an editor, curator and wit, Diana Vreeland made a lasting mark and remains an icon for generations of fashion lovers. During her fifty-year reign as the 'Empress of Fashion', she launched Twiggy, advised Jackie O and coined some of fashion's most eloquent proverbs, such as 'the bikini is the biggest thing since the atom bomb.' She aimed to 'instruct where possible, to delight, to give pleasure, to bring to the reader what interests her.' In this book, the first full-length biography of Vreeland, Amanda Mackenzie Stuart portrays a visionary: a fearless innovator who inspired designers, models, photographers and artists, and who reinvented the way we think about style and where we go to think about it.

An intimate portrait and a vibrant celebration of one of the most influential women of the 20th century

About the Author
Amanda Mackenzie Stuart worked as a screenwriter and independent film producer for a number of years before publishing her first biography, the critically acclaimed Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daugher and Mother in the Gilded Age. She lives in Oxford, UK.

Reviews
'Mackenzie Stuart has written a stylish, funny, fond and vivid book. The only puzzle is that a subject so irresistible as Vreeland should have gone without a good biography for quite so long' - Sunday Times
'Impeccably researched and beautifully written' - Daily Mail (Book of the Week)
'The research for this book has been exhaustive, but Mackenzie Stuart wears it lightly ... she writes movingly about Vreeland's marriage without any intrusive psychoanalysis, and her warmth, enthusiasm and peculiar genius come through in entertaining anecdotes and marvellous, very italicized, quotes' - The Spectator
'Paints an enthralling picture of a mesmerising character who left an indelible print on 20th-century fashion' - Hello!



Book Information
ISBN 9780500516812
Author Amanda MacKenzie Stuart
Format Hardback
Page Count 448
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Weight(grams) 750g