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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
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Where would fashion be without literature?
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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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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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All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.
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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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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've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.
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To be contented—that’s for the cows.
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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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Every girl in the world should have geisha training
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I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!
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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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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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I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.
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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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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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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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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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