WIJ SEMINAR: The mother of all fashion editors

 DATE: June 5, 2013

 TIME: 6.30-8.30pm 

WHERE: The University Women’s Club, 2 Audley Square, London, W1K 1DB.  Nearest tube is Green Park, (web page www.universitywomensclub.com gives the full directions)

Justine Picardie chairs Diana Vreeland, Empress of Fashion event

Diana Vreeland was the cloth from which modern fashion editors are cut. From her first job in 1936 in New York at Harper’s Bazaar, then as editor-in-chief of Vogue and a consultant at MOMA, the self styled “Empress of Fashion” launched Twiggy’s career, advised Jackie Onassis, and daringly encouraged women to reinvent themselves through fashion, as she herself had done.

In a special event for WIJ members at the elegant University Women’s Club in Mayfair, Harper’s Bazaar editor in chief Justine Picardie will introduce an illustrated talk by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart, author of an acclaimed new first full-length biography of Vreeland, followed by a Q&A session. Networking drinks afterwards and copies of the book will be available for signing.

 “Mackenzie Stuart has written a stylish, funny, fond and vivid book. The only puzzle is that a subject so irresistible as Vreeland should have gone without a good biography for quite so long”.

SUNDAY TIMES – Miranda Sawyer

Amanda Mackenzie Stuart has worked as a screenwriter and independent film producer and is also the author of the acclaimed Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: the Story of a Daughter and Mother in a Gilded Age (Thames & Hudson).

Justine Picardie is a former features director of British Vogue, and contributor to the Sunday Telegraph and Red magazine, she is the author of a best-selling biography of Coco Chanel.

Please email wijuk@aol.com to book a place/s

Tickets £ 10 for members/ £15 for non members – offers available for those thinking about joining