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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
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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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The personality is a work of art.
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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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A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.
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Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful.
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If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.
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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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A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.
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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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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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Pink is the navy blue of India.
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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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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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To be contented—that’s for the cows.
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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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All my life I've pursued the perfect red.
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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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