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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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I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
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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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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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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it, you're nobody.
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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?
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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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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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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything.
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The personality is a work of art.
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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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I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.
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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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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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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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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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