On March 1, 1924, Diana Dalziel married Thomas Reed Vreeland (1899–1966), a banker and international financier, at St. Miss Diana Dalziel, one of the most attractive debutantes of the winter, is shown entering her Cadillac." The story read, "“Such motors as these accelerate the social whirl.
In January 1922, Vreeland was featured in her future employer, Vogue, in a roundup of socialites and their cars. Vreeland performed in Anna Pavlova's Gavotte at Carnegie Hall.
Vreeland was sent to dancing school and was a pupil of Michel Fokine, the only Imperial Ballet master ever to leave Russia, and later of Louis Harvy Chalif. Vreeland's family emigrated to the United States at the outbreak of World War I, and moved to 15 East 77th Street in New York, where they became prominent figures in society. Hugh Waldorf Astor (1920–1999), the second son of John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever and Violet Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever. Their daughter Emily Lucy Kinloch married Lt.-Col.
Vreeland had one sister, Alexandra (1907–1999), who later married Sir Alexander Davenport Kinloch, 12th Baronet (1902–1982). She also was a distant cousin of writer and socialite Pauline de Rothschild (née Potter 1908–1976). Hoffman was a descendant of George Washington's brother as well as a cousin of Francis Scott Key. Vreeland was the eldest daughter of American socialite mother Emily Key Hoffman (1876–1928) and British stockbroker father Frederick Young Dalziel (1868–1960). She was born as Diana Dalziel in Paris, France, at 5, avenue du Bois-de-Boulogne (Avenue Foch since World War I). She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1964. She worked for the fashion magazines Harper's Bazaar and Vogue and as a special consultant at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. same magic, same spontaneity and, above all, never a boring moment" (Bill Blass).Diana Vreeland (Septem– August 22, 1989), was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion. is almost as marvelous as an evening with D.V. proves herself a brilliant raconteur as she carries the reader along on her whirlwind lifefrom English palaces to the nightclubs of Paris in the 1930s to the heart of New York high society, hobnobbing with everyone who was anyone, from Queen Mary to Clark Gable to Coco Chanel. is the mesmerizing autobiography of one of the 20th centurys greatest fashion icons, Diana Vreeland, the one-time fashion editor of Harpers Bazaar and editor-in-chief of Vogue, whose incomparable style-sense, genius, and flair helped define the world of haute couture for fifty years. Presentation copy, inscribed in the year of publication by the author, “Love to Pauline Diane V 1984.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.ĭ.V.
First edition of Diana Vreeland’s autobiography.
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