if you don't know the personality of Diana Vreeland, you may find this book a little over dramatic and an absolute load of baloney.
if you do know Diana Vreeland and her outrageous front, her love of tangents and her belief in her lavish gift of a life, then you'll probably find this book fun.

I know her personality, she is crazy and majorly over the top and that's what people loved about her. when I started the book I thought it was outlandish and crazy and I didn't know whether I would actually be able to finish it because it all just seemed so ridiculous. the stories she was telling just seemed to be full of names she wished to drop and full of behaviour she deems normal to everyday life. but then I started reading the book as if she were reading it out loud to me (I had her voice in my head - she has a voice that as soon as you'd hear it, you'd know it was her. unique.) only then did I seem to enjoy the book because I remembered the book is all about her outlandish and crazy life, it could never be about anyone else because she was a woman who told stories with an extremely vivid imagination and a sense of absolute conviction, no matter how crazy it would seem to anyone else.

if you want to read this book I suggest you do as I did, it made reading much more enjoyable - I felt she was talking straight at me. crazy to imagine it, but just try it and I guarantee it will feel like she's right in the room with you.