1.
Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
Diana Vreeland
2.
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
Diana Vreeland
3.
You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
Diana Vreeland
4.
The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.
Diana Vreeland
5.
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
Diana Vreeland
6.
A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?
Diana Vreeland
7.
There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.
Diana Vreeland
8.
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.
Diana Vreeland
9.
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.
Diana Vreeland
10.
The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
Diana Vreeland
11.
Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
Diana Vreeland
12.
I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
Diana Vreeland
13.
Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
Diana Vreeland
14.
The best thing about London is Paris.
Diana Vreeland
15.
Without emotion there is no beauty
Diana Vreeland
16.
Exaggeration is my only reality.
Diana Vreeland
17.
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.
Diana Vreeland
18.
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.
Diana Vreeland
19.
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.
Diana Vreeland
20.
Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
Diana Vreeland
21.
I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
Diana Vreeland
22.
It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.
Diana Vreeland
23.
I've never met a leopard print I didn't like.
Diana Vreeland
24.
There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
Diana Vreeland
25.
Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
Diana Vreeland
26.
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.
Diana Vreeland
27.
We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against.
Diana Vreeland
28.
Too much good taste can be boring
Diana Vreeland
29.
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.
Diana Vreeland
30.
Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
Diana Vreeland
31.
Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.
Diana Vreeland
32.
I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
Diana Vreeland
33.
How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.
Diana Vreeland
34.
You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isn’t a passion, it isn’t burning, it isn’t on fire, you haven’t lived.
Diana Vreeland
35.
You gotta have style to get up in the morning
Diana Vreeland
36.
I adore artifice. I always have.
Diana Vreeland
37.
In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.
Diana Vreeland
38.
What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
Diana Vreeland
39.
If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.
Diana Vreeland
40.
Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.
Diana Vreeland
41.
Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
Diana Vreeland
42.
No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
Diana Vreeland
43.
It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
Diana Vreeland
44.
I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress.
Diana Vreeland
45.
People who eat white bread have no dreams.
Diana Vreeland
46.
I think we live only through our dreams and our imagination.
Diana Vreeland
47.
All creations demand greenery of spirt.
Diana Vreeland
48.
For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.
Diana Vreeland
49.
Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
Diana Vreeland
50.
Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
Diana Vreeland