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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.
Diana Vreeland
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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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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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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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What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
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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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Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. It's there for your pleasure.
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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
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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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The personality is a work of art.
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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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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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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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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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Too much good taste can be boring
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Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful.
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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.
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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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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
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