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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
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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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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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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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.
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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.
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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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The personality is a work of art.
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Most people haven't got a point of view they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.
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Don't you loathe the word workaholic? It has nothing to do with an important thing, that you and your secretary are at the office until 6:30. But that's life, kiddo. 24-hour work doesn't go on in America. 24-hour work is what Italy and Holland did after the war. The lights never went out!
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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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You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.
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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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Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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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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