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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
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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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Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. It's there for your pleasure.
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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
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I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.
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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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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 fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.
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Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?
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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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Most people haven't got a point of view they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.
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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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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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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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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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Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.
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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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