O livro une fotografia, moda e comportamento para transmitir a real ideia de glamour da autora, com as imagens que povoaram seu imaginario durante toda a vida. Sao fotos peculiares, que fogem da ideia de sofisticado e mostram outras facetas de personalidades como Audrey Hepburn, Maria Callas, Charles de Gaulle e Marilyn Monroe. As imagens do livro nao se encerram no universo da moda -- ha costumes de bale, casamentos e ate funerais.
Diana Vreeland was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion. She worked for the fashion magazines Harper's Bazaar and Vogue and the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Born as Diana Dalziel, Vreeland was the eldest daughter of American socialite mother Emily Key Hoffman and British father Frederick Young Dalziel. Hoffman was a descendant of George Washington's brother as well as a cousin of Francis Scott Key. She also was a distant cousin of Pauline de Rothschild. Vreeland had one sister, Alexandra.