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"Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola." Diana Vreeland
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"Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal." Diana Vreeland
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"I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity" Diana Vreeland
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"I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering." Diana Vreeland
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"I adore that pink! It's the navy blue of India!" Diana Vreeland
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"No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore." Diana Vreeland
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"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." Diana Vreeland
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"[Balenciaga] did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more." Diana Vreeland
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"What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about." 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." Diana Vreeland
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"Poor, darling fellow-he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table." Diana Vreeland
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"too much good taste can be boring." Diana Vreeland
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"He knows the secrets of the sea, of the woods and of the vineyard. They are simple and natural worlds, beautiful and varied. He prefers them to the concrete and hard worlds built by other men. Ideas blossom very quickly, and then they are very painstakingly realized and evolved. His many harvests of thought go on and on, and the origins emanate from things as simple as a golden bluebell. Like a positive parent he gives love at the moment of creation, bowing to the beautiful things that he originates." Diana Vreeland
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"Pink is the navy blue of India." Diana Vreeland
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"In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room-no other woman existed." Diana Vreeland
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"Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more." Diana Vreeland
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"I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity." Diana Vreeland
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"In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed." Diana Vreeland
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"Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table." Diana Vreeland
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