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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
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Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
Within
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Without
Every
Arousing
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Emotion
Beauty

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What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
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It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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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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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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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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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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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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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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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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Where would fashion be without literature?
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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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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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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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I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.
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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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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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