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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
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
Socialite
Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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Lead
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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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I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.
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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 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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You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it, you're nobody.
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I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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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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Where would fashion be without literature?
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It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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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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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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A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point or I didn't have a picture. This is what I've always found so fascinating about paparazzi pictures. They catch something unintended, on the wing... they get that thing. It's the revelation of personality.
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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
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You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.
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Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful.
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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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