Quotes by Diane von Furstenberg

About Diane von Furstenberg:

Diane von Furstenberg is a Belgian-born American fashion designer best known for her iconic wrap dress. She initially rose to prominence when she married into the German princely House of Fürstenberg, as the wife of Prince Egon of Fürstenberg. Following their divorce in 1972, she has continued to use his family name, although she is no longer entitled to use the title princess following her divorce and subsequent remarriage in 2001.
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If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.

Diane von Furstenberg

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

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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,...

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I'm very good at breaking up with people. Very good. It requires a lot of skill, but what you do is you tell them the truth of why you are breaking up with them, and after that, you somehow compensate with other things. If you have loved someone, I t...

Diane von Furstenberg

I had good legs, and I loved showing them off.

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 tha...

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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

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.

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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 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

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'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 wou...

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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...

Diane von Furstenberg

I am almost a vegetarian, and I meditate, do yoga and love to hike.

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

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.

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

Do I believe in reincarnation? Well, let's say that I believe in karma. I think you make your own karma.

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 ev...

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

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I get ideas about what's essential when packing my suitcase.

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Author Bio

  • NameDiane von Furstenberg
  • DescriptionBelgian born American fashion designer
  • AliasesPrincess Diane of Fürstenberg; Diane von Furstenberg
  • BornDecember 31, 1946
  • CountryUnited States Of America; Belgium
  • ProfessionFashion Designer