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
thinking world want
This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.
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.
memories thinking scent
I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.
girl mean thinking
I don't think anybody has been in a better place at a better time than I was when I was editor of Vogue. Vogue always did stand for people's lives. I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere: it's the life you're living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later. Like all great times, the sixties were about personalities. It was the first time when mannequins became personalities. It was a time of great goals, an inventive time and these girls invented themselves. Naturally, as an editor I was there to help them along.
beautiful cutting thinking
I think laying out a beautiful picture in a beautiful way is a bloody bore. I think you've got to blow it right across the page and down the side, crop it, cut it in half, combine it with something else... do something with it. You've got to make something out of it.
thinking loner
I was always sort of a loner, I suppose. I always had to think out everything for myself... I suppose that is what you call a loner.
dream home thinking
Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.
fashion nice thinking
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.
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.
hard know-how knows
No one knows how hard one works.
art personality works-of-art
The personality is a work of art.
bored making-money wanted
I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.
opportunity effort pressure
I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them.
beauty beautiful flower
Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. … It's there for your pleasure.