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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.

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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
Chanel
Technique
Dream
Everything
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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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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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Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
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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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I adore artifice. I always have.
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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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All my life I've pursued the perfect red.
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Most people haven't got a point of view they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.
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The personality is a work of art.
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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it it's against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming...
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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 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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Where would fashion be without literature?
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