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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
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Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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Vulgar
Boring

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Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.
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Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful.
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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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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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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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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
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A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.
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All my life I've pursued the perfect red.
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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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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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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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Where would fashion be without literature?
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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
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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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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 think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.
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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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