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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
Socialite
Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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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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I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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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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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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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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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was me—projecting to the public. That was my job. I think I always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. Give ‘em what they never knew they wanted.
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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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Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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The personality is a work of art.
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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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Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.
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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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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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Without emotion there is no beauty
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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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