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All my life I've pursued the perfect red.

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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
Life
Pursued
Red
Fashion
Perfect

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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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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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Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful.
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I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.
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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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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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The personality is a work of art.
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This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.
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Too much good taste can be boring
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I adore artifice. I always have.
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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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Don't you loathe the word workaholic? It has nothing to do with an important thing, that you and your secretary are at the office until 6:30. But that's life, kiddo. 24-hour work doesn't go on in America. 24-hour work is what Italy and Holland did after the war. The lights never went out!
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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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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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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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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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A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.
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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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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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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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