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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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D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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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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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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Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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The best thing about London is Paris.
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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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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 went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.
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When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything.
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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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If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.
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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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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!
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I adore artifice. I always have.
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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
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Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.
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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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