Diana Vreeland Quotes

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

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

There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.

You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.

The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.

Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.

The best thing about London is Paris.

Without emotion there is no beauty

Exaggeration is my only reality.

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.

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.

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.

Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.

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

I've never met a leopard print I didn't like.

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.

Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.

We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against.

Most people haven't got a point of view; they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.

Too much good taste can be boring

Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.

I adore artifice. I always have.

Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.

You gotta have style to get up in the morning

I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead

How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.

In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.

What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.

If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.

Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.

No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.

Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.

I think we live only through our dreams and our imagination.

People who eat white bread have no dreams.

I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress.

It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.

All creations demand greenery of spirt. 

Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!

Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.

I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.

Where would fashion be without literature?