Top 66 Diane von Furstenberg Quotes

Marriage was never a destination with me.

The Chinese consumer is everybody. It’s very simple.

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.

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.

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’ve been working seriously in giving fashion a place that it deserves.

I have always been attracted to clothes designed by women. Coco Chanel, Vionnet, Norma Kamali, Donna Karan. They have a little more – how do I put it? – understanding.

Do I believe in reincarnation? Well, let’s say that I believe in karma. I think you make your own karma.

Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.

My favorite days are the ones where I deal only with my own team, design, marketing, working on the next accessories collection.

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.

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.

A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.

I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.

All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength.

Simplicity and sexiness, that’s what people want. At a price that’s not outrageous.

Fashion can be this mysterious thing that you can’t explain.

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.

There are emerging countries. I mean, there are countries, you know, China, India, and Brazil, and all of these countries that are emerging. They are building homes. They are building – so there is a new lifestyle.

I gave up on my looks a long time ago.

I adore dark chocolate.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.

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 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.

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.

I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.

My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.

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!

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.

My clothes are great for a honeymoon: They’re light and sexy, colorful and pretty, and not expensive.

The real story is that I am very free, that I’ve managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

I get ideas about what’s essential when packing my suitcase.

I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.

I’m not tired of who I am. That would be sad!

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

I always was fascinated with China, because I was born in Europe, and for us, China had this fascination and mystery. The first time I came here was in 1989. They were on bicycles, and the speed of the growth has been incredible.

Everyone knows I married a prince, and then I married a billionaire.

What’s important to me is to share, and being inspired, and inspiring.

Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go.

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’ve always been inspired by women, and my mission was to inspire women. I always wanted to become a certain kind of woman, and I became that woman through fashion. It was a dialogue. I would see that the wrap dress made those women confident, and made them act with confidence.

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.’

As the president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, I represent the designers. And while we can by no means take the blame for eating disorders, we can play our part in addressing this important issue.

I am almost a vegetarian, and I meditate, do yoga and love to hike.

I used the aspects of being a woman to my advantage, but I worked for myself, not a big corporation, so I was lucky to have the freedom to behave however I liked.

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.

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.

Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.

Fashion Week is so important for designers.

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.

Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.

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.

I’ve always liked wrinkles. When I was a young girl, I used to make lines on my face with my nails because I loved Jeanne Moreau. I always wanted to be older; I always added years to my life. For the longest time, if people thought I was older, I would take it as a compliment.

I design for the woman who loves being a woman.

Women inspire me… so I enjoy women’s stories and biographies. I am interested in all women.

The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.

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.

I don’t think we should always look at the Chinese like they’re taking jobs. They are also bring us more and more jobs. Because, they are the biggest growing consumer. I think what is going on in China is exciting.

I had good legs, and I loved showing them off.

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.