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Ooooh! Fashion and Diana Vreeland all wrapped up in one documentary!

Diane von Furstenberg, Manolo Blahnik and Calvin Klein all talk about the legendary Vogue editor in the documentary directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, The Eye Has To Travel, and we are blown away by her history.

Lisa went through a lot of material and research to create a book to honor her grandmother-in-law, who acted as fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar 25 years before taking over as editor-in-chief at Vogue in 1962, but since a book wouldn't capture her life as well as a film would, she opted in for a documentary.

However, the film's highlights

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It's like 2008 all over again!

Gucci's creative director Frida Giannini and Madonna are totes going to be BFFs at the Venice International Film Festival this week.

To start thing off the Queen of Pop will screen her long awaited film W.E. on Thursday, which will be followed by a private dinner hosted by Giannini in Her Madgesty's honor.

But the fun doesn't stop there!

The next night, Madonna will be on hand to present the first ever Gucci Award for Women in Cinema, a new annual award that recognizes an outstanding artistic achievement by a woman in filmmaking.

Gucci will donate $25,000 to the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at NYU Tisch School of the Arts in the winner's name.

[Image via AP Images.]

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