Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel

Diana Vreeland The Eye Has to Travel is a 2011 documentary about the life and career of Diana Vreeland, a fashion legacy famous for her time at Harpers Bazaar and Vogue. The film was directed and produced by Lisa Immordino Vreeland Dianas granddaughterinlaw, BentJorgen Perlmutt, and Frdric Tcheng. It premiered at the 2011 Venice International Film Festival and the Telluride Film Festival. It has a total running time of 86 minutes, and can be seen with English, French, and Italian subtitles.

The film then focuses on Dianas move to New York City in the 1920s, where she was inspired by the dancing, jazz, and new fashions of the time, and her subsequent move to London with her husband, Reed Vreeland. Here she opened a lingerie shop, thus beginning her career in fashion. Shortly after moving back to New York when war broke out in Europe, Vreeland was asked to do a column in Harpers Bazaar called Why Dont You? She quickly became the magazines fashion editor and, as such, revolutionized fashion by doing such acts as popularizing the blue jean and the bikini.Much of the documentary looks at Vreelands time at Vogue, where she began working after nearly twoandahalf decades at Harpers Bazaar. Vreeland quickly became the editorinchief at Vogue, making the magazine into a muchloved artistic publication. The documentary features several accounts from people who worked with Vreeland during this time, including models, photographers, and fellow editors, discussing Vreelands drive and her vision for the magazine. ........

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