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Diana Vreeland
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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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“You know, don't you, that the bikini is only the most important thing since the atom bomb?”
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“Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.”
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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. You're not going to take a beautiful painting off the musuem wall. It's there for your pleasure.”
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“I loathe nostalgia.”
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“When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.”
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“I'm a great believer in vulgarity — if it's got vitality. 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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“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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“A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever.”
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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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“Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.”
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“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.”
Diana Vreeland, French-born U.S. fashion editor/journalist, museum consultant
(1903 - 1989)
Full name: Diana Dalziel Vreeland.