Diane von Furstenberg
Diane von Furstenberg

I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.

Diane von Furstenberg
Diane von Furstenberg

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.

Diane von Furstenberg
Diane von Furstenberg

Attitude is everything.

Diane von Furstenberg
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!

Diane von Furstenberg
Diane von Furstenberg

Fashion can be this mysterious thing that you can't explain.

Diane von Furstenberg
Diane von Furstenberg

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.

Diane von Furstenberg
Diane von Furstenberg

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

Diane von Furstenberg
Diane von Furstenberg

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.

Diane von Furstenberg
Diane von Furstenberg

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.

Diane von Furstenberg
Diane von Furstenberg

Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that's not outrageous.

Diane von Furstenberg
Diane von Furstenberg

The wrap dress is the most traditional form of dressing: It's like a robe, it's like a kimono, it's like a toga. It doesn't have buttons or zippers. What made it different was that it was jersey; therefore, it was close to the body and it was a print.

Diane von Furstenberg
Diane von Furstenberg

Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood.

Diane von Furstenberg
Diane von Furstenberg

Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.

Diane von Furstenberg
Diane von Furstenberg

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.

Diane von Furstenberg
Diane von Furstenberg

Insecurity is a waste of time.

Diane von Furstenberg
Diane von Furstenberg

The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed.

Diane von Furstenberg
Diane von Furstenberg

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

Diane von Furstenberg
Diane von Furstenberg

Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.

Diane von Furstenberg
Diane von Furstenberg

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

Diane von Furstenberg
Diane von Furstenberg

My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.