to a year of staying true to the 'integrity of ideas'

Diana Vreeland's fashion-forward ideas are currently cruising at breakneck speeds in the form of in-flight entertainment. Something tells me she would approve. The 'entertainment' in question is a biographical documentary about her called Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel. The film appeals on many fronts, not just the fashion/art perspective. One of my favorite parts - in her later career with the Met's Costume Institute - recounts her insistence on exaggerating the wig of a mannequin for the exhibit 'The Eighteenth-Century Woman' (pictured below). In reasoning with designer Harold Koda (who happens to be stepping down this month from heading the Costume Institute), she says, and I'm paraphrasing, 'it is not about showing the whole complete truth, but the integrity of the idea' . 

See 'read more' for another example from the film Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

Here editor Karen Schmeer discusses the coffee scene, and clarifies that the clean/smooth visuals are not true to the actual location where the character drinks coffee, yet in a way they are true to how he relates the information, somewhat romantically.

Karen Schmeer | ACE EditFest NY 2009 from Schmeer Fellowship on Vimeo.