Diana Vreeland
I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.Collection: Book
Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.Collection: Mysterious
I think laying out a beautiful picture in a beautiful way is a bloody bore. I think you've got to blow it right across the page and down the side, crop it, cut it in half, combine it with something else... do something with it. You've got to make something out of it.Collection: Beautiful
I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.Collection: Bored
Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.Collection: Fashion
All creations demand greenery of spirt.Collection: Demand
Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.Collection: Hell
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.Collection: Girl
A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.Collection: Witty
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.Collection: Dark
Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.Collection: Clothes
A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?Collection: Leopards
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.Collection: Mean
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 the public. That was my job. I think I always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. Give ‘em what they never knew they wanted.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Fashion
One is born with good taste. It's very hard to acquire. You can acquire the patina of taste. But what Elsie Mendl had was something else that's particularly American––an appreciation of vulgarity. Vulgarity is a very important ingredient in life. 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.Collection: Appreciation
My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.Collection: Book
I think i always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. "Give'em what they never knew they wanted".Collection: Thinking
Naturally, I’ve always been mad about clothes. You don’t get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.Collection: Paris
If it's not there in fashion, fantasize it.Collection: Fashion
Lighting is everything in a color.Collection: Color
Every girl in the world should have geisha trainingCollection: Girl
Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.Collection: Peanut Butter
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.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Joy
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.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Inspirational
If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.Collection: Thinking
Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.Collection: Ideas
Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.Collection: Class
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.Collection: Fashion
Black is the hardest color in the world to get right-except for gray.Collection: Color
When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.Collection: Dance
I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself. I also believe that energy is habit -- which can be created quite easily. In other words, use your energy and more energy flows and then it is very hard to stop it -- as if one would ever want to!Collection: Believe
God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.Collection: Oil
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 heldCollection: Opposites
Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.Collection: Dream
Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!Collection: Mad
You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.Collection: Morning
I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.Collection: Memories
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.Collection: People
Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.Collection: Style
You can see and feel everything in clothes.Collection: Clothes
I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.Collection: Fashion
All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple’—they have no idea what I’m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child’s cap in any Renaissance portrait.Collection: Buddhist
I've never met a leopard print I didn't like.Collection: Leopards
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.Collection: Lying