DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL

Diana Vreeland, known as the ‘Empress of Fashion’, was the first fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar magazine, where she worked for twenty-five years before being appointed editor-in-chief at Vogue. Many consider her to be responsible for creating the concept of fashion as we know it today. 
  A woman with a tremendous personality, Diana Vreeland was a brilliant, charismatic columnist with an inherent talent for discovering new designs, photographers and trends. These were often controversial but have effortlessly stood the test of time. She championed models whose beauty was groundbreaking at the time, launching Twiggy, Lauren Hutton and Ali MacGraw to fame, among countless others.   This documentary, directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, offers us a biography combined with archive footage, familiar photos and in-depth, previously unreleased conversations with legendary journalist George Plimpton.
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About AMERICAN PORTRAITS*:
  Seagram's Gin invites you to discover the American Portraits project, which takes a look back at the lives and work of some of the most influential personalities in 1950s America. Looking closely at the lives and work of these people forces us to rethink the way in which we view the world, and understand why the world and the cities we live in are the way they are and the objects around us designed as they are.
  The applications of this legacy are vast and incalculable. The 1950s was a decade of crisis and post-crisis which led to the redesign of many of the existing economic and social relationship models. This revised outlook led to the emergence of the consumer society and leisure culture. The artistic, economic, human, industrial, social and business dimensions were perhaps never so united.
  Today, as in the 50s, we are living in the midst of a continual process of redefinition of many of society's spheres. To find sources of inspiration we must cast our gaze back in time. Our origins and creativity have always been the drivers of change. The visionary talents of these people can therefore guide us as we reinvent ourselves.
  The programme features four documentaries detailing the work of some of the iconic personalities of this era that best represent the spirit of "American Originality".