Top 100 Quotes About Diana Vreeland
#1. The woman was Diana Vreeland, the high priestess of fashion and legendary fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar and editor-in-chief of Vogue. Dana paused, eyes wide. Well, perhaps she was a bit star-struck after all.
Lynn Steward
#2. Don't think of Diana Vreeland's memoir as a book; it's more like a lunch. A bit of souffle, a glass of champagne, some green grapes - light, bubbly and slightly tart - all served up by an egocentric but inventive hostess.
Cathleen McGuigan
#3. When I was married, I didn't work. When I had my children, I didn't work. But before that, I'd work for Diana Vreeland at 'Harper's Bazaar.'
Lee Radziwill
#4. Maintainence is elegance. Diana Vreeland. vogue magazine 1984.
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#5. I wish I could swap closets with Diana Vreeland, but I think only my left thigh would fit into her clothing.
Catherine Martin
#6. Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values.
Gianni Versace
#8. A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?
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#11. 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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#12. We are not looking for endless variety
we are looking for fashion.
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#13. Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
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#14. 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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#15. It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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#16. Naturally, I've always been mad about clothes. You don't get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.
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#17. You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
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#18. You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.
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#20. 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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#24. Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
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#25. 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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#26. The only thing people are interested in is people.
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#27. Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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#28. Allure is a word very few people use nowadays, but it's something that exists. Allure holds you, doesn't it? Whether it's a gaze or a glance in the street or a face in the crowd or someone sitting opposite you at lunch ... you are held
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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. I think when you're young you should be a lot with yourself and your sufferings. Then one day you get out where the sun shines and the rain rains and the snow snows and it all comes together.
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#35. What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
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#36. 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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#37. I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men. I've always remained what you might call "feminine" about the whole [work] thing.
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#38. In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.
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#41. I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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#42. The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
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#43. 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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#44. It's not about the dress you wear, but it's about the life you lead in the dress.
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#45. Vogue always did stand for people's lives. I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later.
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#46. The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls
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#48. 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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#49. I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
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#50. I never felt comfortable about my looks until I married Reed Vreeland. I believe in love at first sight because that's what it was. I knew the moment our eyes met that we would marry,
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#51. 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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#52. Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
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#53. God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no diamonds. He gave them style.
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#54. The hottest thing in the world is to wear pants with stockings.
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#55. 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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#56. Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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#58. 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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#59. A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste-it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against.
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#60. How boring to copy the past
with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.
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#61. Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
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#62. We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against.
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#64. I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.
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#65. I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring ...
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#66. Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
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#68. 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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#69. Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.
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#70. Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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#71. You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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#75. Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.
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#76. The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.
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#78. Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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#79. Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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#80. I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress.
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#81. Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.
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#82. I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.
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#84. 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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#85. 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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#87. Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.
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#88. No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.
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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. The body must stay fit. Fit people like themselves much better.
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#92. I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or joy or "I told you so." It's nothing. To be on the straight path isn't a bloody thing. It's just ordinary.
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#94. Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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#95. Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate - always.
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#96. I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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#97. A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that's one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting - well, that's entirely different.
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#98. I think we live only through our dreams and our imagination.
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#99. 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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#100. If you had a bump on your nose, it made no difference so long as you had a marvelous body & good carriage. You held your head high, & you were a beauty You knew how to water-ski, & how to take a jet plane fast in the morning, arrive anywhere, & be anyone when you got off.
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