The first full-length bio of the fashion visionary, “Empress” weaves the fascinating story of Diana Dalziel Vreeland, an Upper East Side girl who goes on to work at Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where her fearless imagination and radical innovation helped reinvent the way we think about style. “Diana Vreeland was a great character, an iconoclast, a champion for women,” says Nelson. “She was a firebrand... irresistible, manipulative, narcissistic... She was a lot, and this book was a lot.”
