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Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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 went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.
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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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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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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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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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The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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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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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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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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No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
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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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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was me—projecting to the public. That was my job. 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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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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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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Every girl in the world should have geisha training
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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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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
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Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.
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