Diane von Furstenberg famous quotes

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Life #Friendship #Funny Best Friend

Insecurity is a waste of time.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Insecurity #Waste #Wasting Time

I design for the woman who loves being a woman.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Death #Fashion #Design

We all have a Wonder Woman inside us.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Wonder Woman #Wonder

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

#Perfect #Imperfection

The secret to a great marriage is having a great husband.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Husband #Secret #Great Husband

The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Relationship #Boyfriend #Husband

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Inspirational #Self Esteem #Love Yourself

Aging is out of your control. How you handle it, though, is in your hands.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Hands #Aging #Handle

My goal in life is to be your best friend when you open your closet
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Goal #Life Is #Your Best Friend

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

#Inspirational #Travel #Thinking

It's not about going to a party. It's life as a party.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Party

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

#Running #Badass #Independent

I always wanted to live a man's life in a woman's body
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Men #Body

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.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Travel #Kind #Peru

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Inspirational #Wanted

The success of every single woman is the inspiration for another.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Inspiration #Single Women

I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Travel #Different #Way

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.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Strong #Empowering #Tragedy

You know, there's a thing about the woman across the room. You see the woman across the room, you think, She's so poised; she's so together. But she looks at you and you are the woman across the room for her.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Thinking #Together #Looks

I wanted to be a certain kind of woman. I became that kind of woman.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Kind #Certain #Wanted

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

#Team #Design #Marketing

My clothes are great for a honeymoon: They're light and sexy, colorful and pretty, and not expensive.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Sexy #Light #Clothes

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

#Design #Creative #Challenges

Italy will always have the best food.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Food #Best Food #Food Safety

The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Stressed #Important #Stressed Out

Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Looks

You only regret what you don't do! Go for it, live your dreams and enjoy it all!
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Dream #Regret #Enjoy

Sleep is easier to make up than a unique evening.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Sleep #Unique #Evening

Now is the time to become a myth.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Aging #Myth #Growing Older

The important thing is to believe in what you do. Have a big dream and take small steps.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Dream #Believe #Important

Some fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince... some start there.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Girl #Fairy Tale #Ends

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

#Dream #Done

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

#Zippers #Jersey #Buttons

I always knew the woman I wanted to be.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Wanted

Don't be afraid of your own strength.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Self Esteem #Esteem

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

#Clothes #Empowering #Want

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.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Girl #Empowering #Female

That wonderful and terribly frightening journey of self-discovery. That process of growth, of being an independent person, of learning who you are and what you want from life, is the real secret of life, happiness and beauty.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Real #Independent #Journey

Style is something each of us already has, all we need to do is find it.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Style #Needs

Feel like a woman, wear a dress!
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Dresses #Feels

Personal style is accepting who you are.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Style #Accepting #Who You Are

Do I believe in reincarnation? Well, let's say that I believe in karma. I think you make your own karma.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Karma #Believe #Thinking

Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Common Sense #Brain #Important

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

#Vision #Important #Gardening

You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Inspiring #Keys #Passports

You know I have never met a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Strong #Mets

For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Symbols

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Real #Stories #Compromise

I must have books everywhere. They're the soul of a room-they reveal the taste, the interests, and the secrets of whoever lives there.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Book #Soul #Secret

The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Mistake #Biggest Mistake

In all circumstances, I always look for the light and build around it, with little memory of pain.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Pain #Memories #Light

The girls who were unanimously considered beautiful often rested on their beauty alone. I felt I had to do things, to be intelligent and develop a personality in order to be seen as attractive. By the time I realized maybe I wasn't plain and might even possibly be pretty, I had already trained myself to be a little more interesting and informed.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Love #Inspiring #Beautiful

You can actually be intimate with the universe.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Smart #Intimate #Universe

If you are trying to slip out without waking a sleeping man, zips are a nightmare. Haven't you ever tried to creep out of the room unnoticed the following morning? I've done that many times.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Fashion #Morning #Sleep

What is style? It is an effortless confidence in being yourself, it is a way of putting yourself together according to your mood and what you want to project. Personal style appears to come naturally for some, but for others it can take a while to find it!
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Being Yourself #Style #Together

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

#Art #Perfect #Design

The only way for a relationship to survive, I think, is to have no sex at all. After all, you marry for friendship, for companionship - and passion after a while ... pfffft. I mean, does it excite you when your left hand touches your right?
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Sex #Passion #Mean

Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Bali #Resorts

Fashion is a mysterious energy, a visual moment-impossible to predict where it goes,
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Fashion #Energy #Impossible

Absence Is To Love, What The Wind Is To Fire, When It's a Small Fire The Wind Kills It But When It's a Real Fire It Intensifies It
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Real #Fire #Wind

If there is one rule for dressing, for fashion, it’s pretty much the same rule as for everything else in life: Don’t go against yourself, don’t go against your own nature. It’s only going to show.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Fashion #Shows #Dressings

The older you get, the more you should learn to love life and appreciate the beauty that comes with age.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Love Life #Appreciate #Age

One of the most important things about fashion is to dress as well as you can, look as attractive as you can, and at the same time be comfortable with yourself. Be easy about your clothes; forget about them.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Fashion #Clothes #Important

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

#Fighting #People #Water

New York seemed as young as I was and infinitely hospitable.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#New York #Young

When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Use #Fuel #Feels

I always knew the woman I wanted to be-I knew I wanted to be a woman who was independent a woman who was in the driving seat, a woman who didn't need for the man to decide.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Independent #Men #Needs

The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#True Friend #Black #Dresses

My best creation is my children.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Children #My Children #Creation

The secret to feeling attractive, and to being attractive, is the confidence that comes from knowing who you are and what you believe in.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Believe #Knowing Who You Are #Feelings

Fashion can be this mysterious thing that you can't explain.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Fashion #Mysterious

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Beautiful #Islands #Water

Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Nice #Amsterdam #Ireland