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If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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The personality is a work of art.
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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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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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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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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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Don't you loathe the word workaholic? It has nothing to do with an important thing, that you and your secretary are at the office until 6:30. But that's life, kiddo. 24-hour work doesn't go on in America. 24-hour work is what Italy and Holland did after the war. The lights never went out!
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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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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.
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The best thing about London is Paris.
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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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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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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it, you're nobody.
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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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