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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
Perfect
Life
Pursued
Red
Fashion

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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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The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
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Too much good taste can be boring
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Without emotion there is no beauty
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It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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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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No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
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For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.
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The personality is a work of art.
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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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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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If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.
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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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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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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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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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I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
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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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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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