Diana Vreeland: Empress of Fashion

Described by an admirer as `the High Druidess of fashion, the Supreme Pontiff, Perpetual Curate and Archpresbyter of elegance, the Vicaress of Style´, Diana Vreeland is the cloth from which 21st-century fashion editors are cut. Diana joined Harper´s Bazaar in 1936, where her pizzazz and singular point of view quickly made her a major creative force in fashion. During her time at Harper´s Bazaar and later as the editor-in-chief of Vogue, the self-styled `Empress of fashion´ launched Twiggy´s career, advised Jackie Kennedy, and enjoyed the full swing of sixties´ London. In Diana´s Vogue, women were encouraged to resist fashion orders from on high, and to use their own imaginations in re-creating themselves – much as Vreeland spent her own life doing.