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.
Diana VreelandRead
I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
Interpretation
Diana Vreeland emphasizes her unique role and individuality in the world of fashion.
This quote by Diana Vreeland captures her confidence and distinctiveness as a fashion editor. By stating that she was the 'one and only' fashion editor, she highlights her unmatched contribution and unique vision in the fashion industry, suggesting that true greatness lies in individuality and personal expression.
In practice
During a fashion seminar, to inspire aspiring editors about the importance of individuality in their work.
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.
Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.
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 or someone sitting opposite you at lunch... you are held
There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
You gotta have style to get up in the morning
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.
Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.
I'm here to make good pictures. If I don't see it, I won't touch it. I may not make a good picture, but I still gotta believe in it!
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How _x000D_ else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?
I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.
A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.
The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The scrap heap and the museum are embraced with equal curiosity. He takes snapshots, makes notes and records impressions on tablecloths or newspapers, on backs of envelopes or matchbooks. Why one thing and not another is part of the mystery, but he is omnivorous.
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