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
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.
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.
color lighting
Lighting is everything in a color.
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.
girl should-have training
Every girl in the world should have geisha training
parent terrible knows
Parents, you know, can be terrible.
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.