After watching the film I was intrigued and inspired by Diana Vreeland's personality, stamina and work ethic. She said she had never had a day off from work in her working life..."my life was my job" she had said. She even referred to her life as "Faction".
I thought that her mind, imagination and creativity was exceptional and it seemed that she showed people a completely new way of looking at fashion.
New York Stories had written: 'She stood out from the start. Readers were introduced to her signature epigrammatic style with the typically colorful "Why Don't You?" column, which she began writing in August of 1936. "Why don't you . . . Turn your child into an Infanta for a fancy-dress party?" she asked readers. "Why don't you own, as does one extremely smart woman, twelve diamond roses of all sizes?" The theme repeated over and over in Vreeland's column was a personal credo: Don't just be your ordinary dull self. Why don't you be ingenious and make yourself into something else?' It seemed clear to me that this particular column which she included in Harpur's Bazaar magazine while fashion editor there, inspired house wives and other women in the 1930 s that they can be more daring and inventive with their fashion sense.
When Vreeland became editor in chief at Vogue in the 1960 s, I thought that the photo shoots she had put together were beautiful...she took the models and photograpthers to exotic locations which was well worth it.
To me, and probably most other people out there Diana started a fashion revolution.
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