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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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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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I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.
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Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful.
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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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This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.
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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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Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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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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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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I adore artifice. I always have.
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To be contented—that’s for the cows.
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All my life I've pursued the perfect red.
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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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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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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
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All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.
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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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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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