'The Eye Has to Travel': Fashion icon/editor Diana Vreeland
remembered fondly for her self-made life ★★★  'Dana Vreeland:
The Eye Has to Travel'  'Dana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel'
(September 27, 2012)  For an improbable number of years across
the 20th Century, Harper's Bazaar fashion editor and Vogue
editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland turned every bauble, bangle and
bright shiny bead she personally approved on her publishers'
expense accounts into something faaaaabulous and photographable,
bringing the world Twiggy and other exotic creatures, operating
(as she told at least one writer) under the assumption that an
editor isn't "supposed to give the people what they want.
They're supposed to give them what they don't know they want
yet."  "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel" is a fond
documentary directed by Vreeland's granddaughter-in-law, Lisa
Immordino Vreeland. The two never met, and you wouldn't call
this film a hard-hitting, ruthlessly honest examination of a
highly public and wondrously self-made li