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People who eat white bread have no dreams.

Diana Vreeland

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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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I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.
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If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.
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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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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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There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!
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I adore artifice. I always have.
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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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I think your imagination is your reality
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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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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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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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Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.
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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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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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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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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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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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