Fashion icon Diana Vreeland’s debonair son Frederick “Frick” Vreeland turns 90 on June 24.
Frick’s long career in the Foreign Service culminated in his being named US Ambassador to Morocco under President George H.W. Bush.
He and new girlfriend Sandra Zvollo, in her 50s, will celebrate by taking a trip around the world to visit family and friends from New York to Tibet, where his son, Nicholas Vreeland, is a Buddhist monk and right-hand man to the Dalai Lama.
His other son Alexander, launched a Diana Vreeland fragrance line, and its latest perfume Full Gallop. Frick’s selling the eight-bedroom house he built in Marrakech nearly 40 years ago for $2.24 million.
During a Morocco luncheon given for him by Charles Leslie, who co-founded the Leslie Lohman Museum in Soho, Frick quipped, “My mother never saw the house. She was too busy working, but she came to Morocco in the ’60s and discovered the caftan.”
He also regaled guests with stories about JFK, on whose National Security Council he sat. “I wrote the ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ line for the president in 1963,” he confided.