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VREELAND ON LIFE + STYLE

YOU GOTTA HAVE STYLE. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It’s a way of life. And I’m not talking about a lot of clothes.

DON’T JUST BE YOUR ORDINARY DULL SELF. Why don’t you be ingenious and make yourself into something else?

DON’T LOOK BACK. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there’s a new idea waiting to be born.

THE TROUBLE WITH THIS COUNTRY is that they want to give the public what it wants. Well, the public wants what it can’t get, and it’s up to the museums to teach them what they want.

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.

DIANA VREELAND is considered one of the foremost visionaries in fashion. The Eye Has To Travel was written by Diana’s granddaughter to accompany a documentary presented at the Venice Film Festival.