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The only real elegance is in the mind if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
Diana Vreeland
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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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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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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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I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.
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I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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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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Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
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