"You can see and feel everything in clothes."
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"I think i 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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"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."
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"Pleasure is everything."
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"The only thing people are interested in is people."
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"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."
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"Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality."
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"Water is God's tranquilizer."
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"Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial."
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"I think your imagination is your reality"
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"Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. It's there for your pleasure."
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"To be contented—that’s for the cows."
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"When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream."
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"Naturally, I’ve always been mad about clothes. You don’t get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute."
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"When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step."
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"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 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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"I was always fascinated by the absurdities and luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, it’s not for everyone...But I lived in that world, not only during my years in the magazines business but for years before, because I was always of that world-- at least in my imagination."
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"I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do."
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"I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world."
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"If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived."
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