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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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Fashion Editor
Journalist
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Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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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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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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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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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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Without emotion there is no beauty
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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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To be contented—that’s for the cows.
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There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.
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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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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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The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
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It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.
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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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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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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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