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I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.
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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D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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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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Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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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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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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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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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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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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It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.
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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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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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I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.
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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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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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