A biography for Diane von Furstenberghasn’t been written yet.
“I'm all about empowering women. And by lining them up against the wall and weighing them, surely you are making them feel more like meat than ever - even if it's little meat, if you know what I mean.”
“The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.”
“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.”
“My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.”
“I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.”
“I loved the seventies.”
“I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair.”
“Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.”
“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.”
“I design for the woman who loves being a woman.”
“Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.”
“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.”
“The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.”
“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.”
“When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.”
“You need, in your closet, clothes that will - that you can use in many different ways. Clothes that make you fell comfortable, clothes that make you feel 'you.'”
“I get ideas about what's essential when packing my suitcase.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Everyone knows I married a prince, and then I married a billionaire.”