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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
Diana Vreeland
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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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France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.
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Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. It's there for your pleasure.
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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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One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it it's against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming...
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Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.
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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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