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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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What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
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A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point or I didn't have a picture. This is what I've always found so fascinating about paparazzi pictures. They catch something unintended, on the wing... they get that thing. It's the revelation of personality.
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You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isn’t a passion, it isn’t burning, it isn’t on fire, you haven’t lived.
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Without emotion there is no beauty
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There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!
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Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
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I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!
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I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
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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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All my life I've pursued the perfect red.
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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.
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Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.
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I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them.
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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple’—they have no idea what I’m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child’s cap in any Renaissance portrait.
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I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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