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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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Fashion Editor
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Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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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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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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All my life I've pursued the perfect red.
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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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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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The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.
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I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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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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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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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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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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I think your imagination is your reality
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It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.
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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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Where would fashion be without literature?
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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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