Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
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  • Starring: Diana Vreeland
  • Summary: During Diana Vreeland’s fifty year reign as the “Empress of Fashion,” she launched Twiggy, advised Jackie Onassis, and established countless trends that have withstood the test of time. She was the fashion editor of Harper’s Bazaar where she worked for twenty-five years before becoming editong editor-in-chief of Vogue, followed by a remarkable stint at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, where she helped popularize its historical collections. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel is an intimate portrait and a vibrant celebration of one of the most influential women of the twentieth century, an enduring icon who has had a strong influence on the course of fashion, beauty, publishing and culture. (Samuel Goldwyn Films)… Collapse

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  1. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    Nov 1, 2012
    88
    Her life, and her work, transcended what we think of as "fashion."
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Betsy Sharkey
    Sep 20, 2012
    80
    Remarkably, much of that sizzling sensibility was caught on film and has been stylishly stitched together with her personal history in the scrumptious new documentary, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel.
  3. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Joe Morgenstern
    Sep 27, 2012
    80
    Like no one before or since, she had what she valued most in others - good, old-fashioned pizazz.
  4. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Andrew Pulver
    Sep 21, 2012
    60
    She's entertaining enough, and like most fashion documentaries, it's a mine of pop-cultural history, but the unswervingly generous assessment of her achievements and permanently arch vocal style become a little wearying.

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  1. MarcDoyle
    5
    Vreeland was an extraordinary person, and I'm inspired by her life and her attitude. (She probably worked way too hard in her life, but I understand her passion for it.) But the way this documentarian captures her life just feels mailed in. There's a hundred ways you can present this type of material, and I just thought much of it was cheesy. Not bad, but just not nearly as good as it could have been. The final shot?? Animated Vreeland flying away in the Lindberg plane?? Didn't work for me. The final shot should have been dramatic, stylish, iconoclastic - but not childish. The extended Jane Pauly interviews were excellent. The George Plimpton discussions? Less so.… Expand

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