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Beloved for her wildly original style and joie de vivre, Diana Vreeland is right up there with fashion’s most legendary. The famed editrix’s career, spanning 50 years—from her first role in the fashion department at Harper’s Bazaar in 1936, to becoming editor in chief of Vogue in 1962, and moving on to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in 1970, after Vogue fired her for being too extravagant—mirrors some of the most important moments in pop culture and fashion; if it happened, she was there. Vreeland’s stamp is indelible indeed. With the release of Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel ($62, at Teatro Verde, 100 Yorkville Ave., 416-966-2227, teatroverde.com), her vision has once again come alive, as curated by the wife of her grandson-turned-most-ardent-admirer, Lisa Immordino Vreeland. Last month, Immordino Vreeland shared some of her favourite spreads, as well as insights about her would-be grandmother (the two never met) and now we share them with you!

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Sweet, sweet, surrealist joy. The Met’s Costume Institute has confirmed next spring’s mega exhibit, Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada: On Fashion, set to run from May 10 through August 19, 2012. As we originally reported in August, the exhibit will focus on the connections between the two Italian designers who, while working in completely different eras, share proclivities for the oddball, uncanny, and arty—Schiaparelli with her ’30s collabs with Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau, and Prada with her ongoing relationships with some of today’s best known architects, artists, and foundations.

Last night marked the close of “Savage Beauty,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s four-month ode to Alexander McQueen. Cue the savage, savage tears.

Since it’s opening on May 4, the exhibit brought in an astounding 650,000+ visitors, making it the eighth biggest show in the Met’s 141-year history and their most successful costume specific exhibit ever. In the last few weeks it was open, crazed crowds attempting to get a last peek made headlines. Fights broke out in the sometimes three-hour lineup. The museum retracted the privilege of members to skip the line. There was even an iPhone app made aptly named the McQueen Line Trek: The Taming of the Queue. All’s fair in fashion and war?

If you missed the exhibit and have a major case of regret, the museum at FIT in New York will be showcasing some of McQueen’s pieces at their Daphne Guinness exhibit opening September 16. And if New York is too far of a trek, you can always pick up the Met’s book on the exhibition. But you better hurry—they’ve already sold more than 100,000 copies, and we wouldn’t want to stand in that line at the bookstore.