VREELAND, Diana

[196] pp.

Alfred A. Knopf

1984

First Edition

9 5/8" x 6 5/8"

Front-of-jacket painting by William Hacton

Back-of-jacket photograph by Horst

D.V. 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. The incomparable 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.