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To be contented—that’s for the cows.

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
Contented
Cows

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All my life I've pursued the perfect red.
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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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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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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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Pleasure is everything.
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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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I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was me—projecting to the public. That was my job. I think I always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. Give ‘em what they never knew they wanted.
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It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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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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A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point or I didn't have a picture. This is what I've always found so fascinating about paparazzi pictures. They catch something unintended, on the wing... they get that thing. It's the revelation of personality.
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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.
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The best thing about London is Paris.
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There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.
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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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Every girl in the world should have geisha training
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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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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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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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