Diana Vreeland
Diana Vreeland
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. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1964...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth29 September 1903
CountryUnited States of America
dance dream dancing
When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
running cutting perfect
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.
dream technique
Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
appreciation nice thinking
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.
hell truth-is bigs
Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.
mad culinary marvelous
Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
tables dinner poor
Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.
memories thinking scent
I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.
hands judging size
The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself.
world pants hottest
The hottest thing in the world is to wear pants with stockings.
style helping situation
Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
girl two gertrude
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
believe eye sight
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,
pleasure
Pleasure is everything.