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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.

Diana Vreeland

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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Fashion Editor
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Paris
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D. V. Vreeland
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All my life I've pursued the perfect red.
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I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.
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Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
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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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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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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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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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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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The personality is a work of art.
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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.
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I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.
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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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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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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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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 don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
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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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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.
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