Diana Vreeland: D.V.

[dziga]

I think there is a reason why we keep thinking about Diana Vreeland, why her name keeps appearing in periodical. She nourishes the soul. We tune in to laugh and end up obeying her commands to never go to bed tired… always keep our shoes shined… never look back… go all the way all the time… and to dream. (Mary Loise Wilson)


Люблю читати ось таких незвичайних і надзвичайних жінок! Вони надихають, надають приклад, вміють посміятися над собою і розсмішити до сліз інших. У Дайани Вріланд навіть мова ні на що не схожа, читати її мемуари - це ніби читати пости в жж, ще й до того ж написані такою мовою, на яку здатні лише ті, хто не дуже "правильно" нею володіють, та саме ця неправильність дає їм неймовірну силу витворити власну мову! А сміливості на неправильність DV не позичати:)

А тут, власне, маленький цитатник.

I knew how to work because I knew how to run a house.

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

I think when you’re young you should be a lot of 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. (мені навіть шкода людей, які ніколи не були по-доброму самотініми, думаю, вони ніколи і не стають насправді собою)

Shall we say that’s what’s attractive about brothels? They’re where earth and sky meet.

All the great lingères, the workers of lingerie, were Russian, because they were the only people who really knew luxury when the luxury was in fashion.

But don’t think that you were born too late. Everyone has that illusion. But you aren’t The only problem is if you think too late.

Let’s suppose you were a total stranger – and a very good friend. That’s a good combination. What would you want to know about me? And how would you go about finding it out?
For me the books I’ve read are the giveaway. My life has been more influenced by books than any other one thing. (у мене точно те саме: скажи мені, що ти читаєш, і я скажу, хто ти:)

I’ve always been a gypsy. I mean, by the time we lived there I’d lived in Europe and then America and then Europe and then America again. I can never have a feeling other people have about their roots, their own soil. I have no sense of soil - at all. But for the same reason, I was mad to sell the books. (все правильно, де пара моїх книжок - там я і вдома, щоправда мені ще пара фотографій треба:)

There’ve been several constants in my reading from the start. The Russians were the first…. „Natasha Dress“. Where would fashion be without literature?

Про Коко Шанель: She was extraordinary. The alertness of the women! The charm! You would have fallen in love with her. She was mesmerizing, strange, alarming, witty… you can’s compare anyone with Chanel. She was French…toatally French!
Where she came from in France is everyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing next. She was a peasant and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count, and she was both.

A woman dressed by Chanel back in the twenties and the thirties – like a woman dressed by Balenciaga in the fifties and sixties – walked into a room and had a dignity, an authority, a thing beyond a question of taste.

Coco was never a kind woman… she was a monstre sacré. But she was the most interesting person I’ve ever met.

Про Коко і Хелену Рубінстейн: They both were so much riсher than most oа the men we talk about today being rich. They’d done it all alone. Of course, there’d be men in their livies who had helped them, but earned every cent they made. You ask if they were happy? That is not a characteristic of a European. To be contented – that’s for the cows. But I think that they were, at least when they were in power, at the wheel, and when they were running everything. And they did – these two women ruled empires.

A new dress doesn’t get you anywhere; it’s the life you are living in a dress, and the sort of life you had lived bofore, and what you will do in it later.

Like all grat times, the sixties were about personalities. It was the first time when mannequins became personalities. It was a time of great goals, an inventive time… and these girls invented themselves.

What these magazines gave was a point of view; they need to have it given to them – and what’s more; they expect it from you.

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“ – but all I really care about is that shoemaker.

Unshine shoes are the end of civilization. It happens that all the men in my life – my father, my husband, my two sons, my two grandsons – have been big shoeshine boys.

As Napolen said, „Go to Paris and become a woman.“

Jackie Kennedy put a little style into the White House and into being First Lady of the land, and suddenly a good taste became good taste. .. The Kennedys released a positive attitude toward culture, toward style… and, since then, we’ve never gone back.

Actually I can’t stand novels – I don’t care what happens to people on paper.

We’re all exiles from something, but never to be able to go back to our country is something we don’t know. When I’d been in Russia for only forty-eight hours, I thought to myself: Of all the countries I’ve known, If it were my country not to be able to come back to this one would be the most terrible.

She said, „Is hard, no? Is hard to stay alive, don’t you think?“
„No“, I said, „not really – not if you stay busy, not if you stay interested, not if you keep the discipline, not if you keep the rythm…“

I never go to bed tired… you wake up as you go to sleep. Sleep… is what’s most important… the best time to leave a party is the party’s just beginning. Thre’s no dring that kills except the drink that you didn’d want to take, … and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.
When I think about my childhood, I was always alone. When I think of the war years it was the same… and now I’m alone again. But I knew how to be alone because I’ve been so often alone. Maybe that’s the secret of my life. (ось це треба і собі за правиль взяти!)

I’ve taken a number of blows in my life, but I think they’ve all been for the best. Never look back! I refuse to think anything else.

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

Comments

[moy-compas.livejournal.com]

ух ти, класний цитатник!
про моє нове платтячко: A new dress doesn’t get you anywhere; it’s the life you are living in a dress, and the sort of life you had lived bofore, and what you will do in it later. :)))

і про being alone класно!

[dziga-ya.livejournal.com]

Мені вони найбільше сподобалися!

[hudozhnytsya.livejournal.com]

дуже, дуже цікаво! із задоволенням перечитала :-)