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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
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
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Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
Intoxicating
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Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
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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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If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.
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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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All my life I've pursued the perfect red.
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For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.
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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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God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.
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Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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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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Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count and she was both.
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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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