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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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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
Socialite
Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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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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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point or I didn't have a picture. This is what I've always found so fascinating about paparazzi pictures. They catch something unintended, on the wing... they get that thing. It's the revelation of personality.
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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
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Where would fashion be without literature?
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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
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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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I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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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've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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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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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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There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!
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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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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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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
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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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