#diana vreeland
Diana Vreeland by Louise Dahl-Wolfe, 1942.
Penelope Tree, photo by Richard Avedon. She was first spotted, age 17, in 1966 at Truman Capote’s legendary Black and White Ball. The following day she had already been commissioned by American Vogue to be in a shoot with mega photographer Richard Avedon. Diana Vreeland Cecil Beaton and Avedon all take credit for discovering her.
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The Great Fur Caravan starring Veruschka shot by Richard Avedon, styled by Polly Mellen with hair by Ara Gallant ran as an epic 26 page editorial in Vogue of October 1966. The team was send by Vogue Editor in Chief Diana Vreeland to Japan for 5 weeks with 16 trunks of clothes, to capture the spirit of the book The Tale of Genji.
At the time the shoot was rumored to have cost $1 million ($7 million today) which makes it, to this day, the most expensive fashion shoot in the history of Vogue and its parent company Condé Nast.
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‘In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.’
Diana Vreeland
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‘EXAGGERATION IS MY ONLY REALITY’
Self-invented, extravagant et vitalizing Diana Vreeland. The Editor.
I saw the documentary movie 'The Eyes Have to Travel’ celebrating this incredible woman and from now I appreciate her even more.
’The real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it’. Madame Vreeland knew what she was talking about.
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