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.
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.
Fashion Week is so important for designers.
I've been working seriously in giving fashion a place that it deserves.
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.
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.
What's important to me is to share, and being inspired, and inspiring.
I'm very good at breaking up with people. Very good. It requires a lot of skill, but what you do is you tell them the truth of why you are breaking up with them, and after that, you somehow compensate with other things. If you have loved someone, I think that somehow they should always be a part of your life. I really do.
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.
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.
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 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.
When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.Collection: Life
I never try to make a major fashion statement but I want to be the friend in a woman's closet. I make dresses that women get laid in.Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Relationship
Aging is out of your control. How you handle it, though, is in your hands.Collection: Hands
The secret is to enjoy being you.Collection: Secret
Makeup should have one function only - to make you look better, to make you more attractive...Makeup is a luxury, so it should be fun...Making up is like telling yourself a secret.Collection: Fun
Generosity is the best investment.Collection: Inspirational
You only regret what you don't do! Go for it, live your dreams and enjoy it all!Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Real
Personal style is accepting who you are.Collection: Style
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.Collection: Thinking
You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.Collection: Inspirational
The important thing is to believe in what you do. Have a big dream and take small steps.Collection: Dream
We all have a Wonder Woman inside us.Collection: Wonder Woman
Be proud of yourself. Try to eat well...and when you cheat, enjoy it!Collection: Trying
Do less but do better. Get back to yoga. Remember that stress is not progress.Collection: Stress
The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.Collection: Important Relationships
It's not about going to a party. It's life as a party.Collection: Party
The secret to feeling attractive, and to being attractive, is the confidence that comes from knowing who you are and what you believe in.Collection: Believe
If you're not sure what to wear, if you don't know how everyone else is going to be, then just be at your most beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
I began to be involved (with exercise). It was a little bit like sex sometimes - you know how sometimes you're kind of disinterested, kind of uninvolved, and slowly you begin to become interested?Collection: Sex
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?Collection: Sex
I have always been a nomad and I have mastered the art of packing! I always say: pack lightly, live lightly.Collection: Art
My best creation is my children.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Memories
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.Collection: Independent
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.Collection: True Friend
You don’t seduce in the same way at my age. You seduce with brains, with talent. Yesterday for lunch I met the most incredible 90-year-old woman. She survived Auschwitz, she was beautiful, she didn’t have white hair, she didn’t wear glasses. She was totally seductive. I just thought, Oh, my God, I still have time ahead of me.Collection: Beautiful
The more independent you want to be, the more generous you must be with yourself as a woman.Collection: Women
When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it.Collection: Use
New York seemed as young as I was and infinitely hospitable.Collection: New York
I was fortunate to become the woman I always wanted to be.Collection: Wanted
Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away...His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion.Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Being Yourself
The other day I went to a school in Harlem to talk to some 7th graders [12-year-olds] and I said, ‘If I have to give you some advice, the most important thing is: the sooner you become your own best friend, the better your life will be,’Collection: School
It's very often true that some women look better without makeup, but that's only during the day.Collection: Makeup
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.Collection: Block