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!Collection: Design
Italy will always have the best food.Collection: Food
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.Collection: Gardening
I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.Collection: Travel
I'm not tired of who I am. That would be sad!Collection: Sad
My favorite days are the ones where I deal only with my own team, design, marketing, working on the next accessories collection.Collection: Design
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.Collection: Independence
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.Collection: Relationship
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.Collection: Courage
Attitude is everything.Collection: Attitude
Marriage was never a destination with me.Collection: Marriage
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.Collection: Dreams
I design for the woman who loves being a woman.Collection: Design
A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.Collection: Design
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.Collection: Design
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.Collection: Birthday
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.Collection: Design
I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.Collection: Travel
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.
Fashion is mysterious, as a rule. Why are blue jeans a classic? You just hit on something that happens to be timeless and right.
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.
I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.
Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.
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.
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.
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.
I'm not someone who calculates things.
I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair.
I adore dark chocolate.
I get ideas about what's essential when packing my suitcase.
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 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.
I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.
Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.
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.
The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed.
My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.
My clothes are great for a honeymoon: They're light and sexy, colorful and pretty, and not expensive.
Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood.
Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.
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.
Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.
Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go.
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.
If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.
Do I believe in reincarnation? Well, let's say that I believe in karma. I think you make your own karma.
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.
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 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.
Fashion can be this mysterious thing that you can't explain.