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. – 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
Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections. – 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
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
I obviously don’t feel under pressure to look young, because I have had no Botox or surgery. I don’t judge people who choose to have it, but I don’t want to erase who I am. – Diane von Furstenberg
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
I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it… it all depends on who I travel with. – Diane von Furstenberg
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
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
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. – Diane von Furstenberg
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. – Diane von Furstenberg
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. – Diane von Furstenberg
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. – Diane von Furstenberg
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
My clothes are great for a honeymoon: They’re light and sexy, colorful and pretty, and not expensive. – Diane von Furstenberg
If you’re a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants. – 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
A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials. – 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
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