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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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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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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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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.
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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 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'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
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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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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
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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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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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The only real elegance is in the mind if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
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You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isn’t a passion, it isn’t burning, it isn’t on fire, you haven’t lived.
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If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.
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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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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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The personality is a work of art.
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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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