Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel

"The film captures Vreeland's perhaps unwitting philosophical integrity just as much as it drowns us in the exuberance of her work."

--Diego Costa, Slant Magazine

Special Guests: Donna Bulseco, Assistant Managing Editor at InStyle magazine and Andrew Flynn, Art Director at Women’s Wear Daily.

Moderated by Pamela Street

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 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.

Andrew Flynn: Before becoming Group Art Director at Women’s Wear Daily, Andrew held several posts at Fairchild Publications before it became part of Conde Nast’s Advance Publications including layout artist for Women’s Wear Daily and W magazine, and Art Director at Daily News Record, Fairchild’s former menswear publication. About Diana Vreeland, he notes: “Mrs. Vreeland certainly had a strong influence on my work, though I didn’t know it at the time. Vogue fashion pages with Veruschka prancing through the desert in colorful Giorgio di Saint’Angelo outfits and Twiggy with a flower drawn around her right eye made an impression that in the end sort of defined and inspired my love of fashion and fashion photography.”

Donna Bulseco: She likes to tell people that her parents met in a restaurant called Melody Lane on the corner of Hollywood and Vine—and that may truly be the most glamorous fact about Donna Bulseco, who grew up in Los Angeles, but moved to New York City in 1979 and never looked back. An alum of UCLA and Brown University, where she received an M.A., in English Literature, Donna has worked as an editor at Women’s Wear Daily, and at Self, Good Housekeeping and, currently, at InStyle Magazine, where she is an Assistant Managing Editor. She is also working toward her M.S. Degree in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University.

USA * 2012 * 86 min. * Rated PG-13 * Documentary