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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
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D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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I adore artifice. I always have.
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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.
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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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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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Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.
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You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isn’t a passion, it isn’t burning, it isn’t on fire, you haven’t lived.
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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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Without emotion there is no beauty
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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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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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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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For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.
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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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