All DIANA VREELAND Quotes about “Fashion”

“The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.”
“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.”
“I adore artifice. I always have.”
“Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.”
“Where would fashion be without literature?”
“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.”
“I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.”
“If it's not there in fashion, fantasize it.”
“The best time to leave a party is when the partyâ€™s just beginning. Thereâ€™s no drink that kills except the drink that you didnâ€™t want to take, as the saying goes, and thereâ€™s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.”
“We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against.”
“I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.”
“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.”
“Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.”
“Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality.”
“I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.”
“I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.”
“I was always fascinated by the absurdities and luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, itâ€™s not for everyone...But I lived in that world, not only during my years in the magazines business but for years before, because I was always of that world-- at least in my imagination.”
“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.”
“All my life I've pursued the perfect red.”

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