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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.

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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
Discovered
Dancing
Dance
Learned
Dream

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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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It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.
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Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it it's against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming...
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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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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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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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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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I adore artifice. I always have.
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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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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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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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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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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
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Where would fashion be without literature?
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