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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.
Diana Vreeland
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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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D. V. Vreeland
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The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.
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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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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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Without emotion there is no beauty
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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.
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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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Pleasure is everything.
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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.
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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.
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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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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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Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.
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Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
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Where would fashion be without literature?
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