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Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.
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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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Fashion Editor
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France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. It's there for your pleasure.
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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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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 sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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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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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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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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