Best quotes by Diane von Furstenberg

Sleep is easier to make up than a unique evening.

My face carries all of my memories. Why would I erase them?

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.

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.

Women never cease to impress and inspire me.

Be proud of yourself. Try to eat well...and when you cheat, enjoy it!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Now is the time to become a myth.

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.

Prepare your food attractively and serve it nicely.

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.

You can learn a lot from my mistakes more than my success.

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

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

The easier your hair is to manage the happier you'll be with it and the prettier you'll feel.

I don't care about fashion, I care about women.

Taste is acquired. You may have to unlearn a taste for chocolate or ice cream.

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

When a woman becomes her individual most effective close friend existence is simpler.

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.

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.

What's important to me is to share, and being inspired, and inspiring.

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.

Be the Woman You Want to Be.

Clothes can hide you from yourself but a bikini sure can't.

Don't let any of your good habits get boring.

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.

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

Some fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince... some start there.

The girls who were unanimously considered beautiful often rested on their beauty alone. I felt I had to do things, to be intelligent and develop a personality in order to be seen as attractive. By the time I realized maybe I wasn't plain and might even possibly be pretty, I had already trained myself to be a little more interesting and informed.

I think living is serious. Living well, accepting yourself, using your talents to the fullest, enjoying yourself, that's all serious and important...But I think makeup and fashion should not be taken that seriously...You should have fun making up for a party. You should have fun wearing a sexy dress. When you're beautiful it should give you pleasure.

My favorite days are the ones where I deal only with my own team, design, marketing, working on the next accessories collection.

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

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!

One of the most important things about fashion is to dress as well as you can, look as attractive as you can, and at the same time be comfortable with yourself. Be easy about your clothes; forget about them.

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.

What you eat is everything. What you eat is what you are.

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.

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.

The older I get, the more impressed I am with women. I have yet to meet a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.

If you're a little hippy and full-bosomed, don't try to remake yourself in the image of a skinny fashion model. It won't work. You can trim down your hips. You should always concentrate on special movements to keep your breasts firm and lifted and young. Hippy and bosomy can be very nice, very desirable. Accept it.

If you're trying to lose weight, you just have to eat less. I mean that.

Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.

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.

Water is life is love is life is water.

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.

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

I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.

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.

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.

My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.

I adore dark chocolate.

I am a fast dresser, 30 minutes max with hair and makeup. I don't have a uniform, but I like to be comfortable.

It's the woman you should remember, not the dress, ever.

Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go.

Being attractive for a few hours some evening is hardly worth being that unattractive all day (in hot rollers). Being yourself and being natural with a man is wonderful, but being downright unattractive with him is foolish.

The greatest natural enemy of women is insecurity. We all feel it and we all think we are the only ones who feel that way. How we deal with these fears determines to a great extent how effective we are in running our lives. Most women present a façade to the world and keep the insecurity locked inside. The toughest job in the world is to be a complete, happy woman.

The other day I went to a school in Harlem to talk to some 7th graders [12-year-olds] and I said, ‘If I have to give you some advice, the most important thing is: the sooner you become your own best friend, the better your life will be,’

Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away...His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion.

Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.

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.

It's very often true that some women look better without makeup, but that's only during the day.

Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.

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?

Style is about confidence. That's the real beauty.

The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.

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.

I was terrified the first time that I had a big problem in my business. I was obviously terrified when they diagnosed me with cancer in 1994. I was terrified when my son used to drive too fast. But I do believe in the fact that fear is not an option, so I always try to face it and not be afraid.

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.