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Mosley, Diana Mitford
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Fiction
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2014
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English
β 215 KB
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Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland
β Scribed by Stuart, Amanda Mackenzie
- Book ID
- 107350646
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Born into a family of privilege, Diana Dalziel Vreeland grew up amid the fashionable of New York's Upper East Side. With a famously alluring mother and a classically beautiful sister, young Diana often felt isolated and unloved. But she was saved from her unhappy childhood by her audacious imagination as well as the grit and determination that would shape her extraordinary life.
Talent-spotted by legendary editor Carmel Snow in 1936, Diana joined Harper's Bazaar as a fashion editor, where her singular point of view and signature style quickly made her a major creative force in American fashion. Under her influence, American designers became chic during World War II, and with her pizzazz she inspired a raft of fashion talent on both sides of the Atlantic.
Passed over as successor to Snow, Diana did the unthinkable and accepted the title of editor-in-chief of Bazaar's archrival, Vogue. In Diana's Vogue , women were not only...
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