I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.
Diane von Furstenberg
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.
Diane von Furstenberg
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!
Diane von Furstenberg
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.
Diane von Furstenberg
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.
Diane von Furstenberg
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.
Diane von Furstenberg
Insecurity is a waste of time.
Diane von Furstenberg
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.
Diane von Furstenberg
Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.
Diane von Furstenberg
I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.
Diane von Furstenberg
I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.
Diane von Furstenberg
My clothes are great for a honeymoon: They’re light and sexy, colorful and pretty, and not expensive.
Diane von Furstenberg
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.
Diane von Furstenberg
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.
Diane von Furstenberg
Everyone knows I married a prince, and then I married a billionaire.
Diane von Furstenberg
Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.
Diane von Furstenberg
Simplicity and sexiness, that’s what people want. At a price that’s not outrageous.
Diane von Furstenberg
If you’re a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.
Diane von Furstenberg
The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed.
Diane von Furstenberg
Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.
Diane von Furstenberg
Fashion is mysterious, as a rule. Why are blue jeans a classic? You just hit on something that happens to be timeless and right.
Diane von Furstenberg
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.
Diane von Furstenberg
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.
Diane von Furstenberg
You need, in your closet, clothes that will – that you can use in many different ways. Clothes that make you fell comfortable, clothes that make you feel ‘you.’
Diane von Furstenberg
I get ideas about what’s essential when packing my suitcase.
Diane von Furstenberg
Go to a place where you’re not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.
Diane von Furstenberg
Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.
Diane von Furstenberg
Women inspire me… so I enjoy women’s stories and biographies. I am interested in all women.
Diane von Furstenberg
I design for the woman who loves being a woman.
Diane von Furstenberg
Attitude is everything.
Diane von Furstenberg
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.
Diane von Furstenberg
All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength.
Diane von Furstenberg
I think all races are represented in America much more than in many other places, but it’s also nice to remind people about that ethnic mix. I would like to see more black models and women from different ethnic backgrounds, but I also think that when you are casting, you just choose the most beautiful girl you can find.
Diane von Furstenberg
What’s important to me is to share, and being inspired, and inspiring.
Diane von Furstenberg
My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.
Diane von Furstenberg
I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven’t changed very much.
Diane von Furstenberg
Do I believe in reincarnation? Well, let’s say that I believe in karma. I think you make your own karma.
Diane von Furstenberg
I am a traveler. I am a nomad. I rarely sleep in the same bed more than three or four nights. And I know hotel life better than anyone.
Diane von Furstenberg
Italy will always have the best food.
Diane von Furstenberg
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.
Diane von Furstenberg
Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go.
Diane von Furstenberg
Women are strong. We can do it all. But not always at the same time.
Diane von Furstenberg
The most important thing is to be healthy, to drink a lot of water, to fight gravity as much as possible. I am one of the few people who decided I wasn’t going to do any invasion with my face.
Diane von Furstenberg
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.
Diane von Furstenberg
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.
Diane von Furstenberg
I gave up on my looks a long time ago.
Diane von Furstenberg
Just don’t go to a place where everything is too expensive… it’ll put your husband in a bad mood.
Diane von Furstenberg
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.
Diane von Furstenberg
When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.
Diane von Furstenberg
I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair.
Diane von Furstenberg
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.
Diane von Furstenberg
I obviously don’t feel under pressure to look young, because I have had no Botox or surgery. I don’t judge people who choose to have it, but I don’t want to erase who I am.
Diane von Furstenberg
I was lucky enough to have it all. To be successful in business, to have children, to raise them on my own, and to travel and live my life. It was a lot of work, but it’s a privilege to have been able to do it.
Diane von Furstenberg