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Fashion Quotes by Diana Vreeland

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Diana Vreeland says a dress is more than fabric; it reflects the life you live while wearing it. She argues that personal style is a daily habit that makes you feel present, and that true luxury comes from independent, inspiring choices rather than endless variety. She even compares blue jeans to a beautiful gondola.

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“I adore fringe.”

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I adore artifice. I always have.

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You can see and feel everything in clothes.

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If it's not there in fashion, fantasize it,

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Where would fashion be without literature?

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Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

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All my life I've pursued the perfect red.

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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.

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

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Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality.

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

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

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“We are not looking for endless variety--we are looking for fashion." February 10, 1967, Memo re HAIR ON SITTINGS”

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

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

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

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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone…

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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…

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The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in…

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The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that…

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I was always fascinated by the absurdities and luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, it’s…

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I don't think anybody has been in a better place at a better time than I was when I was editor of…

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I don't think anyone has ever been in a better place at a better time than I was when I was editor…

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We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against.

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You gotta have style to get up in the morning

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

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

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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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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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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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Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes,…

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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…

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

It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.

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

The body must stay fit. Fit people like themselves much better.

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

Pleasure is everything.

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

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…

To be contented—that’s for the cows.

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

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.…

“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…

This world without a leopard…I mean, who would want to be here?!

You can see and feel everything in clothes.

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…