Diana Vreeland Quotes About Fashion

Quotes about: Fashion

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

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Real, Life Changing

• 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

  Beautiful, Fashion, Clothes

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

• 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

  Inspirational, Fashion, Nice

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

• Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Civilization, Shoes

  Diana Vreeland (1985). “D.V.”, Vintage

• 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

  Girl, Fashion, Should Have

• I adore artifice. I always have.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Adore, Artifice

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, World, Release

  Diana Vreeland (1985). “D.V.”, Vintage

• Where would fashion be without literature?

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Literature

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

• When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Littles, Tiny

• I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Editors

• If it's not there in fashion, fantasize it.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Ifs

• The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Party, Home

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Needs, Taste

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

• I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Vanity, Narcissism

• Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Style, Originality

• You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it, you're nobody.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Morning, Style

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

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Independent, Hands

• I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Littles, Tailors

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

• I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Sweaters, Flattering

• Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Clothes, Air

• All my life I've pursued the perfect red.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Perfect, Red

  Diana Vreeland (1985). “D.V.”, Vintage

• I was always fascinated by the absurdities and luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, it’s not for everyone...But I lived in that world, not only during my years in the magazines business but for years before, because I was always of that world-- at least in my imagination.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Years, Luxury

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