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Too much good taste can be boring

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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
Boring
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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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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.
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I was always sort of a loner, I suppose. I always had to think out everything for myself... I suppose that is what you call a loner.
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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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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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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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The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
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Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?
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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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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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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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One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it it's against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming...
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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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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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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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Most people haven't got a point of view they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.
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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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