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Legendary fashion maven diana vreelandat the urging of her editor jackie oauthored a classic volume in the 1980s on the quality of allure in fashion and in life. Browse the amazon editors picks for the best books of 2019, featuring our favorite. Diana vreeland the eye has to travel dvd diana vreeland. She worked for the fashion magazines harpers bazaar and vogue, being the editorinchief of the latter, and as a special consultant at the costume institute of the metropolitan museum of art.
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