Top 100 Furstenberg Quotes
#1. The whole process of being one of the 10 finalists for the 'Vogue' Fashion Fund award has to be my biggest achievement to date. Meeting Anna Wintour, Diane von Furstenberg, etc., has been an amazing experience that even now gives me goose bumps when I think about it.
Simon Spurr
#2. I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress.
Hani Furstenberg
#3. If you like trekking, go to the Himalayas or Peru. I love those kinds of trips. But it all depends on your own life and what you like and what you expect.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#6. I wanted to be an empowered woman, and I became an empowered woman. And now I want to empower every woman. And I do it through my clothes, I do it through my words, I do it through my money, I do it through everything.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#7. The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#8. 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
#9. Landscapes change, people come and go, but all the landscapes, all the experiences, all the people weave into your life's fabric.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#10. 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
#11. The fashion industry has a responsibility to represent a healthy image of women, but to start weighing them and putting them against a wall and making them feel like animals? No.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#13. I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it ... it all depends on who I travel with.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#14. When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#15. 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
#18. The important thing is to believe in what you do. Have a big dream and take small steps.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#19. I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#20. The secret to feeling attractive, and to being attractive, is the confidence that comes from knowing who you are and what you believe in.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#21. I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#28. Fashion is a mysterious energy, a visual moment-impossible to predict where it goes,
Diane Von Furstenberg
#32. In all circumstances, I always look for the light and build around it, with little memory of pain.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#33. Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#35. Women inspire me ... so I enjoy women's stories and biographies. I am interested in all women.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#37. 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
#38. We are living in such a troubled world that fashion seems completely irrelevant. Yet ... it's a very, very mysterious thing. Why all of a sudden do people like yellow? Why all of a sudden do people wear combat boots?
Diane Von Furstenberg
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. There are emerging countries. I mean, there are countries, you know, China, India, and Brazil, and all of these countries that are emerging. They are building homes. They are building - so there is a new lifestyle.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#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.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#44. 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
#46. 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.'
Diane Von Furstenberg
#47. 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.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#48. 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.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#49. I was lucky enough to have it all. To be successful in business, to have children, to raise them on my own, and to travel and live my life. It was a lot of work, but it's a privilege to have been able to do it.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#50. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#53. 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
#54. I have always been a nomad and I have mastered the art of packing! I always say: pack lightly, live lightly.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#56. 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
#58. 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.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#59. 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.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#60. 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.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#62. 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.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#64. I don't like to talk about my dreams. I like to make them happen. I prefer to talk about them when they're done.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#65. 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.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#70. In Sardinia one summer my best friend Marisa Berenson and I ironed each other's hair. We used a hot laundry iron and took turns putting our hair on the ironing board, literally ironing it. That's a recipe for straightening that may be highly successful, but is definitely not recommended.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#71. I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out. Then there's a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#72. 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
#75. 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.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#76. 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
#78. The older you get, the more you should learn to love life and appreciate the beauty that comes with age.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#79. My biggest vice is playing solitaire on my iPad. It's bad. I mean, it's ridiculous.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#82. 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.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#87. 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.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#88. 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
#91. 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.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#93. 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.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#94. I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#95. 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.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#97. 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.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#99. 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.
Diane Von Furstenberg
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