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 More Quotes by Diana Vreeland More Quotes From Diana Vreeland 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. Diana Vreeland views jobs thinking I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor. Diana Vreeland editors fashion I've never met a leopard print I didn't like. Diana Vreeland leopards print mets 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. Diana Vreeland oil style diamond Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more. Diana Vreeland delicious evening clothes 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. Diana Vreeland buddhist color children 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 tiny fashion littles 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. Diana Vreeland passion inspirational mean You can see and feel everything in clothes. Diana Vreeland clothes feels Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything. Diana Vreeland thoughtfulness manners thinking Black is the hardest color in the world to get right-except for gray. Diana Vreeland black color world 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 different lying interesting The future holds a golden world. It will be for beauty; it will be for intelligent productiveness. Diana Vreeland golden intelligent world The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death! Diana Vreeland boring west talking No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century. Diana Vreeland luxury century spirit Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world. Diana Vreeland release fashion world I adore artifice. I always have. Diana Vreeland artifice adore fashion Where would fashion be without literature? Diana Vreeland fashion literature 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. Diana Vreeland next one-day people I think your imagination is your reality Diana Vreeland imagination reality thinking
