Diana Vreeland Quotes

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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 you didn't want to take, as the saying goes, and there's no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.

Diana Vreeland

There's only one thing in life, and that's the continual renewal of inspiration.

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

One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it; it's against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming...

Diana Vreeland

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 shines and the rain rains and the snow snows and it all comes together.

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

Diana Vreeland

Diana Vreeland

Born: July 29, 1903

Died: August 22, 1989 (aged 86)

Bio: Diana Vreeland was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion. She worked for the fashion magazines Harper's Bazaar and Vogue and as a special consultant at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Known for:

Allure (1980)
Inventive Paris Clothes (1977)
La Belle Epoque (1982)
Hollywood Costume: Glamour, Glitter, Romance (1976)

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