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The only real elegance is in the mind if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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Fashion Editor
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D. V. Vreeland
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The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.
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If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.
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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count and she was both.
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When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything.
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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
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A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.
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There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.
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If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.
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I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it it's against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming...
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Where would fashion be without literature?
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You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.
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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.
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The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
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Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.
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