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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
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Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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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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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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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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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything.
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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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No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
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Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.
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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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I adore artifice. I always have.
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Without emotion there is no beauty
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Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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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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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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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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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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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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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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