The Eye has to Travel featured in Brisbane’s International Film Festival 2012.  The documentary is about outlandish bon vivant and curator of style Diana Vreeland.

I love the portrayal of Vreeland from adventurous woman to style icon – placed among the backdrop of rapidly changing roles of woman and the relationship with power.

I love the resilience she conveyed – the famous quote “There’s only one very good life and that’s the life you know you want and you make it yourself” sums it up very nicely. 

On discussing her ethos, the Telegraph review of

• Diana Vreeland: Empress of Fashion by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart, references previous biographer, Eleanor Dwight, on Vreeland’s “deep need to wave her wand and transform the ordinary and the flawed into the mesmerisingly beautiful.” (quote from telegraph.co.uk)

Could I benefit from waving a wand and transforming the ordinary/ flawed into mesmerisingly beautiful? Hell yes! Which makes The Eye has to Travel even more inspirational and interesting. If you’ve seen the doco and would like to share your thoughts feel free to comment.