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It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.

Diana Vreeland

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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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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 very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.
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The personality is a work of art.
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Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.
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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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I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!
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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.
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Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count and she was both.
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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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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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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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Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.
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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple’—they have no idea what I’m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child’s cap in any Renaissance portrait.
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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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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
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You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
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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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