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The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
Diana Vreeland
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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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Fashion Editor
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Paris
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D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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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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God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.
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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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Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.
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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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I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.
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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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Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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Pink is the navy blue of India.
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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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Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?
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Every girl in the world should have geisha training
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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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Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
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I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them.
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The personality is a work of art.
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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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I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
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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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