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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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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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All my life I've pursued the perfect red.
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Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
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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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The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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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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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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Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count and she was both.
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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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A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point or I didn't have a picture. This is what I've always found so fascinating about paparazzi pictures. They catch something unintended, on the wing... they get that thing. It's the revelation of personality.
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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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Too much good taste can be boring
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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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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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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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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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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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