Sometimes it’s better to just print the legend, as this doc wisely does.

| May 24, 2024

a heady, spicy, and utterly joyous experience, with Vreeland’s most famous bon mots. Her deep red apartment, her “garden in hell” was social and cultural New York for decades.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 10, 2023

The late Vreeland is the subject of the absorbing 2011 documentary "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel".

| Apr 23, 2020

The mixture of archive footage with contemporary interviews, photography and animation works exceptionally well and shows great craft.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 5, 2019

Fantastic fun. It's full of energy and zing, just like its subject, although, just like its subject, it also feels less than truthful somehow.

| Sep 1, 2018

The late, great Diana Vreeland devoted her youth to reinventing herself-and her life-to redefine how the world sees beauty. While she may not have become a swan, she became something much more opulent and grand. A peacock, perhaps.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 3, 2017

The limits placed on Immordino Vreeland by a presumed family obligation and her subject's superstructure persona create a fascinating narrative tension in an otherwise admirably executed but boilerplate personality piece.

| Sep 11, 2017

Although some of the dates and causal events in her life are passed over, the rhythm and style carry the narrative forward until the last 20 minutes, when the film mostly meanders to the finish.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 21, 2013

She was a fashion-industry icon and taste-maker for decades, working at Harper's and then Vogue in an era when magazine publishing was as adventuresome as painting, filmmaking and music.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 25, 2013

We suspect that in her imperious voice, Vreeland would say she was mad about it, and she'd mean it as a measure of praise.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 24, 2013

A lively portrait that's as colorful, dynamic and oh-so-fashionable as one of Vreeland's magazine spreads.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 8, 2012

An otherwise fine profile of American fashion magazine doyen Diana Vreeland is let down by pedestrian production.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 26, 2012

She wanted you to look and look again, and this film is full of images which make you do just that.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 22, 2012

There's something marvellously comic about her, an effect reinforced by her refined yet raucous baritone voice.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 22, 2012

This pleasurable documentary is jammed packed with images from magazines, photoshoots and newsreels of a life well lived, but also lots of historical footage of the life Vreeland imagined she had too.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 22, 2012

...more of an energetic and affectionate sketch than a revealing portrait of this oversized personality, but one has to wonder if the woman who celebrated glittering surfaces would have wanted it any other way.

| Original Score: B | Nov 19, 2012

This fascinating documentary reveals that Vreeland (who died in 1989, aged 86) was an original: a dynamic woman with energy to spare and an infectious lust for life

| Nov 18, 2012

What makes this such a joy to watch is not just the timeline of fashion highlights, but Vreeland's unique perspective on life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 15, 2012

Her life, and her work, transcended what we think of as "fashion." Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel celebrates a unique and uniquely determined woman.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 1, 2012

Many people remember some of Diana Vreeland's famous pronouncements ("I adore pink! It is the navy blue of India!") but few remember actually hearing her speak. The documentary Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel takes care of that.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 26, 2012