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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
Mysterious
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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 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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Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
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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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I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.
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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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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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To be contented—that’s for the cows.
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There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.
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I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
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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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Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.
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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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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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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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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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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
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