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Anna Wintour who? We have
all heard the stories of the current editor-in-chief of American Vogue and how
influential she is, but before her, came the original style genius, Diana
Vreeland. She was born into an affluent
family in Paris and then moved to the U.S.
There she was seen as an extremely stylish socialite and was asked by
Harper’s Bazaar to produce a column for them.
It was entitled “Why Don’t You?”
The column infused fashion advice with her quirky sense of humour, with
advice such as, “(Why Don’t You) wash your blonde child’s hair in dead
champagne, as they do in France (D.V. 144).”
She quickly rose up the ranks to become the fashion editor of Bazaar.
She left Bazaar in 1962 to become editor-in-chief of
American Vogue until 1971. At Vogue, she
modernized the magazine to get with the times of the sexual revolution. She has been quoted as saying, “The bikini is
the most important thing since the atom bomb (http://www.canadianinteriordesign.com/kwi/diana_vreeland.htm).”
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Diana was an extremely free spirited individual with a
brilliant and fun view on fashion. She
was also the fashion advisor to Jacqueline Kennedy who became such a massive
style icon. As well, Diana discovered
Edie Sedgwick whom later became a muse for Andy Warhol. She was also known for celebrating uniqueness
in people’s appearances, flaws of the body were wonderful to her. In 1965, she was inaugurated into the
International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.
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