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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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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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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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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 think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.
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I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it, you're nobody.
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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
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It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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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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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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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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Where would fashion be without literature?
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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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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 you loathe the word workaholic? It has nothing to do with an important thing, that you and your secretary are at the office until 6:30. But that's life, kiddo. 24-hour work doesn't go on in America. 24-hour work is what Italy and Holland did after the war. The lights never went out!
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Every girl in the world should have geisha training
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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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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
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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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