196 Quotes by Diana Vreeland

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

One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it; it’s against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming...

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.

Naturally, I’ve always been mad about clothes. You don’t get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.

This is a great shame, but of course there have to be some things in life that not everybody can have, and great perfume is one of them.

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

Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?

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

Black is the hardest color in the world to get right-except for gray...