Word: vreeland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name is no more familiar. But Diana (pronounced Deeann) Vreeland is better known than her anonymity tells; as the new editor in chief of Vogue Magazine, she is the professional bellwether to a certain special clique of chic. She has long been a flamboyant and energetic tastemaker; designers have been known to tremble at her nod, customers at private showings to pick purely what she picks, manufacturers and merchandisers to watch her every move with rapt fixation. She is, in fact, probably the single most fabled, venerated and respected backstage fashion force in the world today...
...Rivals. No one could mistake the Big Two-Editors Nancy White of Harper's Bazaar and Diana Vreeland of Vogue (known to every friend and nonfriend in the trade as "Dee-ann"). Flanked by a squadron of outriders, they did not so much attend a show as occupy it. Miss White, a nonviolently well-dressed woman, with her broken wrist (the result of a slip on the ice before she left the U.S.) bound in a sling that changed daily with her outfit, got the honored spot on Coco Chanel's couch; but Mrs. Vreeland, turbaned, fiery-eyed...
...Never on Sunday) Mercouri, smashing her way through ranks of lesser spectators to get to Dior's Marc Bohan. "It was magnificent! Fantastic! Extraordinaire!" "No," said Bohan, pale but for the thousand carmine kiss marks on his cheeks, "I was not nervous, just a little worried." Said Mrs. Vreeland: "My dear, how really truly completely MARVELOUS...
Many Kirkland House students divided their house members into three groups, broadly characterized as athletes, musicians, and "drama-English major types." In Winthrop, the groups were the athletes and non-athletes; Mrs. Vreeland compared them to two "closed circles," touching only on the peripheries...
There is another statistic, as yet not thoroughly analyzed; beer mugs with House emblems last year, while only 43 did so in Dunster, a poor second. Beer-mug purchasing, Mrs. Vreeland has found, is closely correlated with participation in House athletics...