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I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
Editor
Fashion Editor
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Paris
France
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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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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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Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.
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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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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
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Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
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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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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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I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was me—projecting to the public. That was my job. 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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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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It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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Without emotion there is no beauty
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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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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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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 sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
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Every girl in the world should have geisha training
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I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.
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