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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
Socialite
Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
Vulgar
Boring
Please
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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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The personality is a work of art.
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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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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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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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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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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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Pink is the navy blue of India.
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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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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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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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What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
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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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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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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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I adore artifice. I always have.
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