Vreeland Quotes

“We are not looking for endless variety--we are looking for fashion." February 10, 1967, Memo re HAIR ON SITTINGS”

“The woman was Diana Vreeland, the high priestess of fashion and legendary fashion editor of Harper’s Bazaar and editor-in-chief of Vogue. Dana paused, eyes wide. Well, perhaps she was a bit star-struck after all.”

“If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal”

“To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.”

“Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.”

“Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.”

“I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings.”

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

“A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.”

“A new dress doesn’t get you anywhere. It's the life you’re living in the dress.”