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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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Fashion Editor
Journalist
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Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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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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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't 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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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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All my life I've pursued the perfect red.
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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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Every girl in the world should have geisha training
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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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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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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
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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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I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.
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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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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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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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