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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
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
Socialite
Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
Devastating
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Clothes
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Fainted
Infatuated
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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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The best thing about London is Paris.
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When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.
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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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Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it, you're nobody.
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To be contented—that’s for the cows.
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It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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I was always sort of a loner, I suppose. I always had to think out everything for myself... I suppose that is what you call a loner.
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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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Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
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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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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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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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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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You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.
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Pleasure is everything.
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There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!
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