Top 160 Diane Von Furstenberg Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “You can learn a lot from my mistakes more than my success.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

52. “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

53. “What’s important to me is to share, and being inspired, and inspiring.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

54. “I design for the woman who loves being a woman.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

55. “Simplicity and sexiness, that’s what people want. At a price that’s not outrageous.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

56. “Italy will always have the best food.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

57. “It’s the woman you should remember, not the dress, ever.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

58. “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

59. “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

60. “For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

61. “My biggest vice is playing solitaire on my iPad. It’s bad. I mean, it’s ridiculous.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

62. “Style is something each of us already has, all we need to do is find it.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

63. “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

64. “It’s not about going to a party. It’s life as a party.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

65. “Fear is not an option.” “Don’t dwell on the dark side of things, but look for the light and build around it. If one door closes, look for another one to open.” “Never, ever, blame others for what befalls you, no matter how horrible it might be. Trust you, and only you, to be responsible for your own life.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

66. “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.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

67. “I wanted to be a certain kind of woman. I became that kind of woman.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

68. “Water is life is love is life is water.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

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

— Diane Von Furstenberg

70. “In all circumstances, I always look for the light and build around it, with little memory of pain.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

71. “Do less but do better. Get back to yoga. Remember that stress is not progress.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

72. “I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

73. “If you’re trying to lose weight, you just have to eat less. I mean that.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

74. “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

75. “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.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

76. “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

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

— Diane Von Furstenberg

78. “If you are trying to slip out without waking a sleeping man, zips are a nightmare. Haven’t you ever tried to creep out of the room unnoticed the following morning? I’ve done that many times.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

79. “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

80. “Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

81. “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

82. “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

83. “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

84. “The more independent you want to be, the more generous you must be with yourself as a woman.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

85. “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!”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

86. “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

87. “The success of every single woman is the inspiration for another.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

88. “If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

89. “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.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

90. “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.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

91. “As my mother told me, if you save one life, it begins a dynasty. The life you save can save another, so one life is never too small.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

92. “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

93. “The easier your hair is to manage the happier you’ll be with it and the prettier you’ll feel.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

94. “Personal style is accepting who you are.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

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

— Diane Von Furstenberg

96. “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.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

97. “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.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

98. “The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

99. “The relationship that counts most in my life is the one I have with myself. I have a great, great, great relationship with myself, and it gets better and better as I get older. The other day, I was talking to Barry in the car and I said, ‘I’m so glad I’m me!’”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

100. “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