Diane von Furstenberg

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No one should notice how your eyes are done or the color of your eyeshadow. They should just notice you and notice that you're beautiful, that you have beautiful eyes.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Beautiful
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You don't want to exaggerate any feature noticeably. I think only truly beautiful women can exaggerate and they usually don't have to.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Beautiful
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Resisting a beautiful chocolate cake or a wonderful foie gras is as difficult as (the idea of) saying no to Paul Newman.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Beautiful
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Fashion is a mysterious energy, a visual moment-impossible to predict where it goes.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Fashion
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If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Interesting
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Style is about confidence. That's the real beauty.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Real
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Nature is a source of strength.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Nature
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The whole point about beauty is its imperfection.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Beauty
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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
Collection: Being Yourself
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It's more important to be healthy and of good spirit than it is to be thin, just as it's more important to be an attractive woman than a fashionable one.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Healthy
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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
Collection: Fashion
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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.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Drinking
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If you're a little hippy and full-bosomed, don't try to remake yourself in the image of a skinny fashion model. It won't work. You can trim down your hips. You should always concentrate on special movements to keep your breasts firm and lifted and young. Hippy and bosomy can be very nice, very desirable. Accept it.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Fashion
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If you're trying to lose weight, you just have to eat less. I mean that.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Mean
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So as a founder, you have an authenticity and a human factor that is really special and that gives an enormous amount of energy and fuel. But as a founder, you’re also not as cold, maybe, or as pragmatic.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Giving
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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.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Fashion
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Water is life is love is life is water.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Love Is
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It's the woman you should remember, not the dress, ever.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Dresses
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Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Needs
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Even if your skin is perfect, even if it's glowing and beautiful, electric lights defeat you. They deaden the complexion, make it look drab. They rob you of color...In the evening, you just can't play the natural kid bit, that fresh-scrubbed look.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Beautiful
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The greatest natural enemy of women is insecurity. We all feel it and we all think we are the only ones who feel that way. How we deal with these fears determines to a great extent how effective we are in running our lives. Most women present a façade to the world and keep the insecurity locked inside. The toughest job in the world is to be a complete, happy woman.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Running
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I don't care about fashion, I care about women.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Fashion
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You can learn a lot from my mistakes more than my success.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Mistake
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When a woman becomes her individual most effective close friend existence is simpler.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Close Friends
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It's important to leave your face without makeup for a while after waking up...Let your skin breathe a while before applying your makeup, even if it means waking up a bit earlier.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Mean
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Taste is acquired. You may have to unlearn a taste for chocolate or ice cream.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Ice Cream
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Be the Woman You Want to Be.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Inspiring
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Some fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince... some start there.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Girl
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Clothes can hide you from yourself but a bikini sure can't.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Clothes
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Don't let any of your good habits get boring.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Boring
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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
Collection: Love
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Now is the time to become a myth.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Aging
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There is nothing more thrilling than arriving in a new place on your own and feeling the sense of possibility and excitement that brings with it.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Feelings
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I think living is serious. Living well, accepting yourself, using your talents to the fullest, enjoying yourself, that's all serious and important...But I think makeup and fashion should not be taken that seriously...You should have fun making up for a party. You should have fun wearing a sexy dress. When you're beautiful it should give you pleasure.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Beautiful
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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
Collection: Real
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I said that Mrs Obama has been extremely supportive of American designers, but clearly we were disappointed that she chose to wear a British designer for the state dinner...From there, I was so embarrassed that I am definitely going to write to her. She has been super supportive to American designers.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Writing
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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.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Makeup
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It is more important to be pretty as a woman than to be fashionable.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Important
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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.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Girl
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All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Mother
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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.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Fashion
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The older you get, the more you should learn to love life and appreciate the beauty that comes with age.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Love Life
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For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Symbols
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My face carries all of my memories. Why would I erase them?
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Memories
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It's like learning to fall properly. If you can manage not to tighten up you won't hurt yourself as much. The same theory applies to your day, physically and emotionally. The tensions simply can't take hold.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Hurt
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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
Collection: Common Sense
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Silence, nothing is better.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Silence
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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!'
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Fun
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My goal in life is to be your best friend when you open your closet
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Goal