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Jun 2013
44m 52s

Amanda MacKenzie Stuart, “Empress of Fas...

Marshall Poe
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The title says it all: Diana Vreeland was, in fact, that Empress of Fashion, reigning over Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute for half a century. As a result, her life story stretches the conventions of biography, which so often presents mid-century women’s lives merely as a series of relationships. Amanda MacKenzi ... Show More
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