Diana Vreeland
'Youthquake' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries
Oxford Dictionaries has deemed "youthquake" the 2017 word of the year, reflecting what it calls a "political awakening" among millennial voters.
It was first coined in the 1960s by Vogue editor Diana Vreeland, who used it to describe sudden changes in fashion, music and attitudes.
Turkey's women had enough of pink
In the 1927 musical "Funny Face," the formidable Miss Prescott - a character based on Vogue's legendary editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland - announces her decision that her fashion magazine would urge all women to dress in nothing but pink.
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From glossy fashion to the world we live in: The iconic images of Richard Avedon
By Elis Kiss
Henry Moores hand speaks of the sculptor in a 1963 photograph, while a double-take portrait of Francis Bacon from 1979 comes as a reflection of the painters own fragmented oeuvre. The images, shot by acclaimed photographer Richard Avedon, are iconic: They define their era, the sitters and the person orchestrating them behind the lens.