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Every girl in the world should have geisha training

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
Socialite
Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
Girl
Every
World
Geisha
Training

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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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I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
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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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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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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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Without emotion there is no beauty
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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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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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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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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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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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It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.
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Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.
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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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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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Pleasure is everything.
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The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.
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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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The only real elegance is in the mind if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
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