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

Diana Vreeland

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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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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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All my life I've pursued the perfect red.
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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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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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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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Every girl in the world should have geisha training
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I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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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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When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.
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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!
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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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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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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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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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The only real elegance is in the mind if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
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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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