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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
Even
Chanel
Technique
Dream
Everything

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The best thing about London is Paris.
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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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I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.
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Pink is the navy blue of India.
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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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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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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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There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.
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Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
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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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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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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was me—projecting to the public. That was my job. 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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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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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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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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