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No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.

Diana Vreeland

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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
Sense
Spirit
Better
Really
Coco
Chanel
Luxury
Century

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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.
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The best thing about London is Paris.
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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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The only real elegance is in the mind if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
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Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
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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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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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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 would fashion be without literature?
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I adore artifice. I always have.
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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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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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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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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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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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This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.
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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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Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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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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