Diana Originally Diana Dalziel Vreeland Quotes

1906? - 1989

US journalist, editor ofVogue. Born inParis, she married Thomas Vreeland in1924 in NewYork and joinedVogue as editor-in-chief in 1962. She transformed the high-fashion magazine into a society journal. She also acted as consultant to the costume institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A little bad taste is like a splash of paprika.We all need a splash of bad tasteit's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical.

1984 D.V. (her autobiography, edited by George Plimpton and Christopher Hemphill).

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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

Diana Originally Diana Dalziel Vreeland

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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 Originally Diana Dalziel Vreeland

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The biggest thing since the atom bomb.

Diana Originally Diana Dalziel Vreeland
— 1990 On the bikini. In her obituary in the NewYorkTimes,1 Apr.

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People who eat white bread have no dreams.

Diana Originally Diana Dalziel Vreeland
— Quoted in AnnetteTapert and Diana EdkinsThe Power of Style (1994).

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Diana Originally Diana Dalziel Vreeland Quotes

1906? - 1989

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