


Under her influence, American designers became chic during World War II, and with her pizzazz she inspired a raft of fashion talent on both sides of the Atlantic. Talent-spotted by legendary editor Carmel Snow in 1936, Diana joined Harper's Bazaar as a fashion editor, where her singular point of view and signature style quickly made her a major creative force in American fashion. But she was saved from her unhappy childhood by her audacious imagination as well as the grit and determination that would shape her extraordinary life. With a famously alluring mother and a classically beautiful sister, young Diana often felt isolated and unloved. Born into a family of privilege, Diana Dalziel Vreeland grew up amid the fashionable of New York's Upper East Side.
