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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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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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Fashion Editor
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Paris
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D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
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Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.
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It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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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 certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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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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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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You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it, you're nobody.
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I adore artifice. I always have.
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Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.
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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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Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?
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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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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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When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.
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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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Pleasure is everything.
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If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.
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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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