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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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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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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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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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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.
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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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Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
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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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I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.
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Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
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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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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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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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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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Every girl in the world should have geisha training
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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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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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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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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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