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I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
Diana Vreeland
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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
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You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
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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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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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The best thing about London is Paris.
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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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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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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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I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them.
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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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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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No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
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The personality is a work of art.
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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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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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I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
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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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It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.
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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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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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