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

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
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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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Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.
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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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Every girl in the world should have geisha training
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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!
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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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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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The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
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All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.
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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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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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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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Pink is the navy blue of India.
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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 went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.
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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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What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
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