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A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever.

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.

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.

All creations demand greenery of spirt. 

All my life I've pursued the perfect red.

All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple’—they have no idea what I’m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child’s cap in any Renaissance portrait.

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

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.

Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.

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.

Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.

Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.

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

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.

Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.

Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.

Don't you loathe the word "workaholic"? It has nothing to do with an important thing, that you and your secretary are at the office until 6:30. But that's life, kiddo. 24-hour work doesn't go on in America. 24-hour work is what Italy and Holland did after the war. The lights never went out!

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

Every girl in the world should have geisha training

Exaggeration is my only reality.

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

For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.

God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.

How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.

I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.

I adore artifice. I always have.

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.

I don't think anyone has ever been in a better place at a better time than I was when I was editor of Vogue. 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. Like all great times, the sixties were about personalities.

If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.

If you had a bump on your nose, it made no difference so long as you had a marvelous body & good carriage. You held your head high, & you were a beauty You knew how to water-ski, & how to take a jet plane fast in the morning, arrive anywhere, & be anyone when you got off.

If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.

I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring.

I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men. I've always remained what you might call "feminine" about the whole [work] thing.

I never felt comfortable about my looks until I married Reed Vreeland. I believe in love at first sight because that's what it was. I knew the moment our eyes met that we would marry.

I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.

I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself. I also believe that energy is habit -- which can be created quite easily. In other words, use your energy and more energy flows and then it is very hard to stop it -- as if one would ever want to!

I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.

I think laying out a beautiful picture in a beautiful way is a bloody bore. I think you've got to blow it right across the page and down the side, crop it, cut it in half, combine it with something else... do something with it. You've got to make something out of it.

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.

I think we live only through our dreams and our imagination.

I think when you’re young you should be a lot with yourself and your sufferings. Then one day you get out where the sun shines and the rain rains and the snow snows and it all comes together.

It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.

It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.

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.

I was always sort of a loner, I suppose. I always had to think out everything for myself... I suppose that is what you call a loner.

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