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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.

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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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D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.
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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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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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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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You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isn’t a passion, it isn’t burning, it isn’t on fire, you haven’t lived.
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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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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
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No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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