Top 100 Diane Von Furstenberg Quotes
#1. Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.
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#2. I used the aspects of being a woman to my advantage, but I worked for myself, not a big corporation, so I was lucky to have the freedom to behave however I liked.
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#4. Resisting a beautiful chocolate cake or a wonderful foie gras is as difficult as (the idea of) saying no to Paul Newman.
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#10. Truth is cathartic, a way of keeping the trees pruned. The truer you can be the better it is because it simplifies life and love.
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#12. I always was fascinated with China, because I was born in Europe, and for us, China had this fascination and mystery. The first time I came here was in 1989. They were on bicycles, and the speed of the growth has been incredible.
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#13. 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.
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#14. 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.
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#16. I have always been a nomad and I have mastered the art of packing! I always say: pack lightly, live lightly.
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#17. 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.
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#18. I really have fun making up. I have a good face for making up, good bones. I do the shapings, then the eyes. Then I put on mascara and I do something else. Then I put on mascara again and do something else. Then I put on more mascara and my whole face is completely made up.
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#20. I find great happiness in my relationships with old friends, living mirrors that reflect histories of laughter and sorrow, triumphs and failures, births and deaths, on both sides.
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#22. Building a wardrobe is like building a circle of friends your whole life ... Your own beauty is to be yourself, but of course we need tools and accessories.
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#23. Don't blame your parents, don't blame your boyfriend, don't blame the weather. Accept the reality, embrace the challenge, and deal with it. Be in charge of your own life. Turn negatives into positives and be proud to be a woman.
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#24. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#28. The older you get, the more you should learn to love life and appreciate the beauty that comes with age.
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#29. 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.
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#30. 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.
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#32. I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.
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#33. The secret to feeling attractive, and to being attractive, is the confidence that comes from knowing who you are and what you believe in.
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#35. When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it.
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#36. 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.
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#37. 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.
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#38. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be.
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#39. If you're short, don't wear extremely high heels. After a certain age, you shouldn't wear little girls' clothes. That's going against your nature.
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#40. 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.'
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#41. I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.
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#42. 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.
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#43. 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.
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#44. 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!
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#47. Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.
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#49. I was a very young girl and I got into fashion very much by accident, wanting to be independent. What was wonderful was that while I was learning and discovering - learning about the work, discovering myself as a woman - I was allowing other women to feel the same way.
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#52. 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.
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#53. 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.
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#56. My favorite days are the ones where I deal only with my own team, design, marketing, working on the next accessories collection.
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#58. 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!
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#59. The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.
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#60. 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.
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#63. 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.
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#64. I have always been attracted to clothes designed by women. Coco Chanel, Vionnet, Norma Kamali, Donna Karan. They have a little more - how do I put it? - understanding.
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#65. All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength.
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#66. 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
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#68. We need to encourage designers and agencies to be responsible. We need to make sure everyone is sensitive to the issues. But to calculate the girls' body mass - I personally think it is demeaning.
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#70. 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.
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#71. Passion and persistence are what matter. Dreams are achievable and you can make your fantasy come true, but there are no shortcuts. Nothing happens without hard work.
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#72. When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all the Chinese children who have nothing to eat.' But now, for my children, Chinese people make everything, and for my grandchildren, they buy everything.
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#74. You don't want to exaggerate any feature noticeably. I think only truly beautiful women can exaggerate and they usually don't have to.
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#77. 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.
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#78. 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.
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#79. If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.
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#80. 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.
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#81. Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away ... His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion.
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#82. 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.
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#83. When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.
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#86. 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.
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#87. What I have learned is that when you are sick, much of healing is in the hands of doctors and science, but part of it is finding and using your own power.
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#88. 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.
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#90. The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.
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#91. I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out an jersey, and before I know it, I lived an American Dream making more than 25,000 dresses a week.
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#92. 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?
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#93. You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.
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#94. 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.
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#95. 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.
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#96. The trees at Cloudwalk have been my friends for forty years. I'm sure if I were sawed in half, our rings would match.
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#99. 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.
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