Diana Vreeland 'The eye has to travel'

  

I read about this film in a magazine far too many months ago and finally last Sunday night I watched it. 'The eye has to travel' is more of a documentary film lots of amazing photos, film clips and recordings from the life of Diana Vreeland (Harper's Bazaar fashion editor in the 1930's
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I instantly like Vreeland's strong accent and wit, it instantly captures your  attention. Born in Paris in 1903 but settling in New York aged 10, Dianna loved to dance and this carried on right through to the 1920's. 'I was never out of Harlem in those days' Diana says about the 1920's.
Moving to London and then Paris with her husbands in the Late 1920's, Vreeland opened a lingerie shop and was devastated to have to move back home when the war broke out in the 1930's.
In 1936 she started as a columnist at Harper's Bazaar with a column called 'Why don't you? she quickly became fashion editor and whilst there discovered the film star 'Lauren Bacall'.
'The most beautiful thing I've ever seen' Vreeland talks about the blue jean. She was one of the first to put blue jeans in to a fashion magazine.
In 1962 she joined Vogue and only a year later she became Editor-in-chief this position was held until 1973. Throughout the film many of Diana's columns and photo shoots are shown, she was always thinking of a new idea, she saw fashion as art and new that it involved everything from art to music to society.
From 1971-1984 Diana Vreeland worked as a costume consultant for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Creating amazing exhibitions about the history of fashion and designers both present and past.
I just loved getting an insight into Diana Vreeland's life and not just the fashion stuff I loved all the history too.