Vreeland began her career as the fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar, where she first gained confidence and made a reputation as a working woman with an eye for style and a nose for what's next. Vreeland was fashion's original bulldozing diva-but she wore Chanel. Vreeland was terrorizing assistants long before Meryl Streep made Anne Hathaway cower in The Devil Wears Prada. Vreeland was the inspiration for actress Kay Thompson's imperious fashion editor in the film Funny Face. But more important than her easily caricatured personality, Vreeland's creative gestures were so bold and sweeping that ever since she strode the halls of Vogue magazine for much of the 1960s, all other editors in chief have been compared to her. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Diana Vreeland is single-handedly responsible for the pop-culture meme that great fashion editors are flamboyant and eccentric, possess the temperaments of tyrants, and are prone to mysterious pronouncements about pink being the navy blue of India.
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