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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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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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The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
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Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.
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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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Every girl in the world should have geisha training
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You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
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When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.
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It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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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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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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The only real elegance is in the mind if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
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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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No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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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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What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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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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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 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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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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