Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
– Diana Vreeland
Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
– Diana Vreeland
Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
– Diana Vreeland
I adore that pink! It's the navy blue of India!
– Diana Vreeland
I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.
– Diana Vreeland
In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room-no other woman existed.
– Diana Vreeland
No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.
– Diana Vreeland
Poor, darling fellow-he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.
– Diana Vreeland
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
– Diana Vreeland
The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell-unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls.
– Diana Vreeland
What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.