'Why don't you... wash your blonde child's hair in dead champagne, as they do in France?' Is anyone's life so, well, quotable as the divine Ms Vreeland's? We think not. A taste maker, Harper's Bazaar fashion editor and all out style icon Diana brought an element of pizzazz (her own word) into Depression-weary women's lives, dazzling them with her outlandish suggestions and equally glamorous style.

From an editorship at Vogue to a role at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, Diana Vreeland has a wardrobe women all over the world covet. Why don't you take a glance through her look book? See what we've done there?