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The High Priestess of Fashion.

allure” is a word very few people use nowadays, but it’s something that exists. allure holds you doesn’t it? whether it’s a gaze or a glance in the street or a face in the crowd, someone sitting opposite you at lunch… you are held.
 
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style was a standard. didn’t hurt anyone… but 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. i’m not talking about lots of clothes.
 
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now brodovitch was the tutor of all these people of harper’s bazaar of layout, and many of them had gone to his classes at night. he was a very remarkable man, he loved his white space, he loved empty pages-oh, he couldn’t stand me. i mean, i wanted, of course, to put in as much as possible. i only wanted fashion.

anyone who’s afraid and does not search and give as much as possible to the world of pleasure is a totally ignorant person. we were put here for the joy of it, for the hell of it, and it’s all here now; nothing has been taken away. it’s a question of creating it.
 
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style: all who have it share one thing—originality.
 
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UNDER VREELAND, VOGUE BECAME A COMBINATION OF CULTURE, ART, HAPPENINGS, AND VIBRANT FASHION. “I THINK PART OF MY SUCCESS AS AN EDITOR CAME FROM NEVER WORRYING ABOUT A FACT, A CAUSE, AN ATMOSPHERE. IT WAS ME—PROJECTING TO THE PUBLIC. THAT WAS MY JOB. I THINK I HAVE ALWAYS HAD A PERFECTLY CLEAR VIEW OF WHAT WAS POSSIBLE FOR THE PUBLIC. GIVE ‘EM WHAT THEY NEVER KNEW THEY WANTED.”
 
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can you tell I LIVE for diana vreeland!? i mean. she’s just wonderful. hideous and marvelous. in her documentary “the eye has to travel” there was a quote about her that went something like “she was never a very beautiful woman and she was never a very wealthy woman, but she created beauty and wealth.”

love.

all quotes from diana’s book, the eye has to travel.

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