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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'

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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
Marked
Empowering
Female
Pay
Space
Prettiness
Occupying
Rent

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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.
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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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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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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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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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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'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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The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.
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Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.
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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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Where would fashion be without literature?
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You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isn’t a passion, it isn’t burning, it isn’t on fire, you haven’t lived.
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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've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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The personality is a work of art.
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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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Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.
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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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