Diane von Furstenberg Quotes

Do less but do better. Get back to yoga. Remember that stress is not progress.

Fashion is mysterious, as a rule. Why are blue jeans a classic? You just hit on something that happens to be timeless and right.

What makes you attractive is being yourself, being natural, being unaware. Even though makeup is important, you should do it all, and then forget about it. You don't want to look like anyone else, any more than you want to be anyone else. You want to look like you. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery - but it's flattering to someone else. Not to you.

The relationship that counts most in my life is the one I have with myself. I have a great, great, great relationship with myself, and it gets better and better as I get older. The other day, I was talking to Barry in the car and I said, 'I'm so glad I'm me!'

You cannot have a healthy body without drinking a great deal of water. But remember, you can't just drink a glass of water and tell a glass of water to please go straight to your skin and moisturize your complexion. Water has to be there all the time, doing what it does naturally in a healthy body.

I had a very down-to-earth product, my wrap dress, which was really a uniform. It was just a simple little cotton-jersey dress that everybody loved and everybody wore. That one dress sold about 3 or 4 million. I would see 20, 30 dresses walking down one block. All sorts of different women. It felt very good. Young and old, and fat and thin, and poor and rich.

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.

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

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.

Being attractive for a few hours some evening is hardly worth being that unattractive all day (in hot rollers). Being yourself and being natural with a man is wonderful, but being downright unattractive with him is foolish.

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.

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

I wanted to be a certain kind of woman. I became that kind of woman.

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.

Fashion is a mysterious energy, a visual moment-impossible to predict where it goes.

Feel like a woman, wear a dress!

I adore dark chocolate.

I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair.

I sit in the sink (while applying makeup). I do. I've broken more sinks...I sit in the sink, on top of a big square sink in my bathroom with my feet in the basin so I'm very close to the mirror with the good light, and I'm very comfortable. I also manage to put my two phones in the sink so that nothing, but nothing, could get me out of there.

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

Aging is out of your control. How you handle it, though, is in your hands.

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

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.

Clothes can hide you from yourself but a bikini sure can't.

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

Building a wardrobe is like building a circle of friends your whole life.... Your own beauty is to be yourself, but of course we need tools and accessories.

Resisting a beautiful chocolate cake or a wonderful foie gras is as difficult as (the idea of) saying no to Paul Newman.

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

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

You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.

Some fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince... some start there.

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

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

It's the woman you should remember, not the dress, ever.

The success of every single woman is the inspiration for another.

Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away...His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion.

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.

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

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

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

I don't care about fashion, I care about women.

Water is life is love is life is water.

Style is about confidence. That's the real beauty.

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

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.

One of my fondest memories was when I was in London as a young, independent businesswoman and stayed at Claridge's. I knew I had made it. To me, Claridge's is the most glamourous hotel in the world; I regard it as my home away from home. I am honoured to become part of the hotel's legacy and rich design history.

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

Taste is acquired. You may have to unlearn a taste for chocolate or ice cream.