Film Screening “Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel”

Fri 24 Jul 2015, 8 pm
Blossom Art House

From the organizer:

You are invited to the screening of “Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel” – a fashion documentary, a film by Lisa Immordino Vreeland.

This is an intimate portrait and a vibrant celebration of one of the most influential women of the 20th century, Diana Vreeland, an enduring icon whose influence changed the face of fashion, beauty, art, publishing and culture forever. It is a great introduction to a colourful and unstoppably optimistic character, a unique and uniquely-determined woman that during her 50-year reign as the “Empress of Fashion”, Mrs. Vreeland established herself as a controversial visionary who had an astonishing ability to invent and discover fashion ideas, designers, personalities and photographers. She was a taste-maker for decades, working at Harper’s and then Vogue in an era when magazine publishing was as adventuresome as painting, filmmaking and music. Her life, and her work, transcended what we think of as “fashion”.

Taken as a whole, the message is to celebrate your flaws, screw the establishment and live as rich a life as possible. She asked in 1936 for her Harper’s Bazaar column, “Why don’t you paint a map of the world on all four walls of your boys’ nursery so they won’t grow up with a provincial point of view?” Why not indeed?

Duration: 86 minutes
Language: Audio + Subtitles in English

FREE ENTRY. (A donation of 30k suggested)

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