The #ImperialCollection features #TheEyeHasToTravel; #Documentary signed by producer & director #LisaImmorodinoVrleeland, granddaughter-in-law of the prime subject, the larger-than-life #DianaVreeland. It was lucky I was not exposed to her tyrannical ways. She spent a life time grinding the people who reported to her under her feet. #AliMagraw tells about the time #DV threw her coat @ her as she entered her office & Ali threw it back @ her. The weird thing is that her particular #Charisma demanded #WhitePriviledge & the bullying behaviour was allowed as part of the package. Had someone slapped her face, it would have ended. But no one dared. She was #Superintelligent, & had a keen insight in terms of predicting #FashionTrends. Her primary goal in life was #NotToBeOrdinary & #NotToBeBanal. So, she had a great eye, & was able to assemble #Toadies, & spent her time blowing cigarette smoke in the faces of those who were afraid of her, which was nearly every person interviewed. #PenelopeTree, #JeanShrimpton, #Twiggy, #Cher (she created that non-entity), #LauenHutton, etc. Her years as #Editor @ #Harpers & #Vogue were the source material of #DevilWearsPrada. Perhaps her most important & lasting achievement was resuscitation of the #MetopolitanMuseumOfArtCostumeInstitute. Her #FearBasedManagement brought out the checkbooks from those who needed her approval & there was, indeed, something of value in exchange. I simply believe it could have been done w/kindness, instead of the meanness masquerading as focused drama. Married to #ReedVreeland, the only human she ever loved, till his death. "She saw things in people before they saw it in themselves." (at Castro Theatre)