Diana vreeland biography

American fashion columnist and editor (1903–1989)

Diana Vreeland (September 29, 1903^[2] – August 22, 1989) was an American fashion columnist and editor. She worked for the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar and as editor-in-chief at Vogue, later becoming a special consultant to the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

She was named on the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1964.^[3][4] Vreeland coined the term youthquake in 1965.^[5]

Early life

Born Diana Dalziel in Paris in 1903, she lived at 5 avenue du Bois-de-Boulogne (known as Avenue Foch post-World War I).

Vreeland was the eldest daughter of an American socialite mother, Emily Key Hoffman, and a British stockbroker^[6] father, Frederick Young Dalziel. Hoffman was a descendant of George Washington's brother, as well as a cousin of Francis Scott Key. She was also a distant cousin of writer and socialite Pauline de Rothsch Diana Vreeland | Biography, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, The Eye ...

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