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Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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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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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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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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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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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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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.
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Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.
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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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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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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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I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
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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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