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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.

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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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Money
Nothing
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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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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 think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.
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Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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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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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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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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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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The best thing about London is Paris.
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All my life I've pursued the perfect red.
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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
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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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Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
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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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Pink is the navy blue of India.
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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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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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