Diana Vreeland Quotes

This bikini made me a success.

I didn't have any idea that Gwen Stefani would evolve into this symbol of womanhood in America, but to me, that's not a musical story: it's a fashion story.

Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.

The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it.

I think my first bikini, I was four and it was polka dotted and I had a big belly and I looked dashing.

Modern culture is a tremendous force.

The bathing suits they had me wear on Baywatch were all one-pieces, which kill my figure.

In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.

I designed the miniskirt that caused so much havoc in the Sixties - the miniskirt that was such fun but has travelled well to today.

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

I might wear my pink Speedo. I think I should.

And I have a couple swimsuit calendars I did that are coming out.

The power of pop culture stories should not be underestimated, and there is an enormous potential for inspirational stories that can have a positive, transformative effect on our lives.

I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time.

When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.

I occasionally buy a bikini, but I'm too shy to wear it.

I love the idea of the Swinging Sixties in London.

For my bikinis, the smaller the better. That's how I've always been.

The most important thing is I am trying to bring classic rock into pop culture, so I don't think anything is going to look like vintage or old-school.

I do like bikinis. I have a good body.

I love how pop culture shapes a generation. The trends, fashion and events all play a key part in how we live our present lives, and will mark how we will be remembered in the future.

More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.

The computer saves man a lot of guesswork, but so does the bikini.

Culture is so much faster and so much more effective than anything else. If you go on a march, you march for a couple hours and it might be on the news that night, but if it happens culturally, it happens forever. Everywhere in the world, that TV show is being played. Someone is downloading it illegally. It's blowing someone else's mind. Culture marches so quickly, and it's a language we all understand.