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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
Editor
Fashion Editor
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Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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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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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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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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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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Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.
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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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The personality is a work of art.
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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
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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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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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You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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The best thing about London is Paris.
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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
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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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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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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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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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