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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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Pink is the navy blue of India.
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I adore artifice. I always have.
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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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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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Pleasure is everything.
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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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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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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 loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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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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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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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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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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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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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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