Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
An archetypally fearsome queen of fashion magazines, Diana Vreeland’s influential tenure at HARPER’S BAZAAR, VOGUE and the Metropolitan Museum of Art spanned five decades of couture revolutions, parties and celebrities. Co-directed by Vreeland’s granddaughter-in-law Lisa Immordino Vreeland, in partnership with Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng, DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL is a freewheeling, gossipy, highly entertaining whirl through the intersecting worlds of fashion, art and fame. It features interview insights old and new from Anjelica Huston, Richard Avedon, Manolo Blahnik, Ali MacGraw and many more. Vreeland herself appears in extensive archive clips, a magisterial figure always keen to share her spiky, eminently quotable opinions.
Diana Vreeland, Richard Avedon, David Bailey
- Notes From Sophie De Rakoff“I wanted to be where the action was.” Diana Vreeland, arguably the greatest of all fashion editors, was the enemy of boring. Like a Mitford sister on acid, she stormed through American fashion for three and a half decades with wit, vision and the sickest personal style. Perfectly edited and beautifully sequenced, THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL layers interviews, narration and archival footage so stylishly and with such innate chic that perhaps for a nanosecond you can see the world through Mrs. Vreeland’s eyes. When I play the game Ultimate Dinner Party, Mrs. Vreeland is forever at the head of my table, and this doc is the closest I will ever get to knowing what that could feel like.
