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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
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
Socialite
Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
Someone
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Something
Time
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Discovered
World
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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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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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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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To be contented—that’s for the cows.
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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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Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
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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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I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.
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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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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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The only real elegance is in the mind if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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I adore artifice. I always have.
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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 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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Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.
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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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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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The personality is a work of art.
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