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Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
Diana Vreeland
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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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Fashion Editor
Journalist
Socialite
Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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To be contented—that’s for the cows.
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Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
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I adore artifice. I always have.
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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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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 it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.
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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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The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
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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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A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point or I didn't have a picture. This is what I've always found so fascinating about paparazzi pictures. They catch something unintended, on the wing... they get that thing. It's the revelation of personality.
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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 like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.
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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
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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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I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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