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It's not about the dress you wear, but it's about the life you lead in the dress. — Diana Vreeland

Pleasure is everything. — Diana Vreeland

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing. — Diana Vreeland

Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything. — Diana Vreeland

What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about. — Diana Vreeland

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola. — Diana Vreeland

God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no diamonds. He gave them style. — Diana Vreeland

Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring. — Diana Vreeland

Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull. — Diana Vreeland

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. — Diana Vreeland

When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream. — Diana Vreeland

I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead — Diana Vreeland

I adore that pink, it is the navy blue of India! — Diana Vreeland

I think we live only through our dreams and our imagination. — Diana Vreeland

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table. — Diana Vreeland

No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century. — Diana Vreeland

You gotta have style to get up in the morning — Diana Vreeland

We are not looking for endless variety
we are looking for fashion. — Diana Vreeland

Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial. — Diana Vreeland

People who eat white bread have no dreams. — Diana Vreeland

Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born. — Diana Vreeland

If it's not there in fashion, fantasize it, — Diana Vreeland

I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning. — Diana Vreeland

Maintainence is elegance. Diana Vreeland. vogue magazine 1984. — Diana Vreeland

The hottest thing in the world is to wear pants with stockings. — Diana Vreeland

Without emotion there is no beauty — Diana Vreeland

You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning. — Diana Vreeland

The only thing people are interested in is people. — Diana Vreeland

You can see and feel everything in clothes. — Diana Vreeland

I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read. — Diana Vreeland

Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died. — Diana Vreeland

Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring. — Diana Vreeland

I adore artifice. I always have. — Diana Vreeland

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb. — Diana Vreeland

To be contented - that's for the cows. — Diana Vreeland

I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades. — Diana Vreeland

Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can't think all the time. — Diana Vreeland

I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world. — Diana Vreeland

I wish I could swap closets with Diana Vreeland, but I think only my left thigh would fit into her clothing. — Catherine Martin

I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress. — Diana Vreeland

I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor. — Diana Vreeland

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

I once heard someone say, I shall die very young. How young? I don't know. Maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young. — Diana Vreeland

Exaggeration is my only reality. — Diana Vreeland

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it? — Diana Vreeland

I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring ... — Diana Vreeland

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. — Diana Vreeland

Naturally, I've always been mad about clothes. You don't get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute. — Diana Vreeland

What sells is hope. — Diana Vreeland

I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted. — Diana Vreeland

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it. — Diana Vreeland

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. — Diana Vreeland

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

The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women ... Every girl in the world should have geisha training. — Diana Vreeland

The best thing about London is Paris, — Diana Vreeland

Unshined shoes are the end of civilization. — Diana Vreeland

I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them. — Diana Vreeland

I have always felt that the only great thing about an interview is the questions that are asked. — Diana Vreeland

Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation. — Diana Vreeland

Pink is the navy blue of India. — Diana Vreeland

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal. — Diana Vreeland

Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world. — Diana Vreeland

Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more. — Diana Vreeland

Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate - always. — Diana Vreeland

Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public. — Diana Vreeland

Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious. — Diana Vreeland

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. — Diana Vreeland

In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed. — Diana Vreeland

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. — Diana Vreeland

I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea ... of what to do. — Diana Vreeland

I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering. — Diana Vreeland

I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself. — Diana Vreeland

How boring to copy the past
with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow. — Diana Vreeland

No one knows how hard one works. — Diana Vreeland

The future holds a golden world. It will be for beauty; it will be for intelligent productiveness. — Diana Vreeland

I've never met a leopard print I didn't like. — Diana Vreeland

There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself. — Diana Vreeland

It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly. — Diana Vreeland

Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality. — Diana Vreeland

Water is God's tranquilizer, — Diana Vreeland

No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore. — Diana Vreeland

The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself. — Diana Vreeland

If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow. — Diana Vreeland

I think your imagination is your reality — Diana Vreeland

Lighting is everything in a color. — Diana Vreeland

Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything. — Diana Vreeland

Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it! — Diana Vreeland

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

Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy. — Diana Vreeland

I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them! — Diana Vreeland

Where would fashion be without literature? — Diana Vreeland

The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally. — Diana Vreeland

You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive. — Diana Vreeland

Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty. — Diana Vreeland

Too much good taste can be boring — Diana Vreeland

This world without a leopard ... I mean, who would want to be here?! — Diana Vreeland

This is a great shame, but of course there have to be some things in life that not everybody can have, and great perfume is one of them. — Diana Vreeland

Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world - and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame. — Diana Vreeland

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. — Diana Vreeland

Black is the hardest color in the world to get right-except for gray ... — Diana Vreeland