Vreeland, Diana (Dalziel) (c. 1901–c. 1989)

French-born US fashion journalist. As fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar 1937–62, she became ‘the high priestess of style’, a trend-setter who coined the term ‘beautiful people’. She was editor in chief of Vogue 1962–71.

After her retirement, she mounted major annual fashion exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum, New York.

Born in Paris, France, the daughter of wealthy parents, Vreeland moved to New York as a teenager. She dispensed extravagant advice in Harper's Bazaar in 1936, before becoming fashion editor on the magazine.