Top 220 Quotes & Sayings by Diane von Furstenberg
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Belgian designer Diane von Furstenberg.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.
A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.
Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.
The wrap dress is the most traditional form of dressing: It's like a robe, it's like a kimono, it's like a toga. It doesn't have buttons or zippers. What made it different was that it was jersey; therefore, it was close to the body and it was a print.
Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.
When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.
I was a very young girl and I got into fashion very much by accident, wanting to be independent. What was wonderful was that while I was learning and discovering - learning about the work, discovering myself as a woman - I was allowing other women to feel the same way.
When you come to a hotel room, you want it to be grand, functional and beautiful. But you don't want things that are not useful. Sometimes you go to hotels and there are all these frames and pictures of people you don't know, and you end up hiding everything in the drawer, and then housekeeping come and put it out again.
I was terrified the first time that I had a big problem in my business. I was obviously terrified when they diagnosed me with cancer in 1994. I was terrified when my son used to drive too fast. But I do believe in the fact that fear is not an option, so I always try to face it and not be afraid.
I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair.
What I think I sell with my clothes is confidence, so hopefully all my dresses, my accessories, are friends to the women. When you open the closet, and your eyes are swollen, and you don't like the way you look, you go to your friends.
The most important relationship you have in life is the one you have with yourself. And then after that, I'd say once you have that, it may be hard work, but you can actually design your life.
Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.
Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.
If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.
My mother never, ever told me about evilness. She only saw the beautiful things... she wanted to protect me from it.
If you like trekking, go to the Himalayas or Peru. I love those kinds of trips. But it all depends on your own life and what you like and what you expect.
I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important.
I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.
The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed.
I wanted to be an empowered woman, and I became an empowered woman. And now I want to empower every woman. And I do it through my clothes, I do it through my words, I do it through my money, I do it through everything.
The way I design generally is very much travel-oriented because that is my life. That's why I make clothes that are so light and so easy to pack and a little bit seasonless.
When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all the Chinese children who have nothing to eat.' But now, for my children, Chinese people make everything, and for my grandchildren, they buy everything.
Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.
There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!
I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.
I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.
Italy will always have the best food.
I believe that all women should have children. I think women are made to have children and to be mothers. I also think women have to have an identity outside the home.
I was lucky because I got so successful so early, and when you get successful early, then you can afford to be a little bit humble.
I design for the woman who loves being a woman.
Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.
I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.
Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures and all the prints come out of nature.
Fashion is mysterious, as a rule. Why are blue jeans a classic? You just hit on something that happens to be timeless and right.
I've been working seriously in giving fashion a place that it deserves.
I get ideas about what's essential when packing my suitcase.
I'm very good at breaking up with people. Very good. It requires a lot of skill, but what you do is you tell them the truth of why you are breaking up with them, and after that, you somehow compensate with other things. If you have loved someone, I think that somehow they should always be a part of your life. I really do.
I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.
I don't like to talk about my dreams. I like to make them happen. I prefer to talk about them when they're done.
My mother said that we're so lucky to be women. It's not that men are weak. Men are men. We're two completely different animals.
What's important to me is to share, and being inspired, and inspiring.
Fashion Week is so important for designers.
I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.
I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.
I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.
Do I believe in reincarnation? Well, let's say that I believe in karma. I think you make your own karma.
Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go.
Fashion can be this mysterious thing that you can't explain.
Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood.
I'm not someone who calculates things.
My clothes are great for a honeymoon: They're light and sexy, colorful and pretty, and not expensive.
The older I get, the more impressed I am with women. I have yet to meet a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.
All I can tell you is that I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out. Then there's a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy.
I never like to think that I design for a particular person. I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be, and - to some degree - the woman I'm still a little piece of.
Attitude is everything.
When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.
The iPad! What is better designed than that? I read magazines on it, I play Scrabble. I use it for everything.
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.
I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.
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