Top 160 Diane Von Furstenberg Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out an jersey, and before I know it, I lived an American Dream making more than 25,000 dresses a week.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

103. “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

104. “If there is one rule for dressing, for fashion, it’s pretty much the same rule as for everything else in life: Don’t go against yourself, don’t go against your own nature. It’s only going to show.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

105. “What you eat is everything. What you eat is what you are.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

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

— Diane Von Furstenberg

107. “Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it’s an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures and all the prints come out of nature.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

108. “God has saved my life so that I can give you life.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

109. “Don’t be afraid of your own strength.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

110. “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

111. “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

112. “All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn’t an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren’t.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

113. “My goal in life is to be your best friend when you open your closet.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

114. “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

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

— Diane Von Furstenberg

116. “Be in charge of your own life.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

117. “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.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

118. “I must have books everywhere. They’re the soul of a room-they reveal the taste, the interests, and the secrets of whoever lives there.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

119. “Sleep is easier to make up than a unique evening.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

120. “You don’t want to exaggerate any feature noticeably. I think only truly beautiful women can exaggerate and they usually don’t have to.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

121. “It’s very often true that some women look better without makeup, but that’s only during the day.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

122. “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

123. “My clothes are great for a honeymoon: They’re light and sexy, colorful and pretty, and not expensive.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

124. “Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

125. “Fashion can be this mysterious thing that you can’t explain.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

126. “I don’t care about fashion, I care about women.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

127. “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

128. “The trees at Cloudwalk have been my friends for forty years. I’m sure if I were sawed in half, our rings would match.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

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

— Diane Von Furstenberg

130. “I have always been a nomad and I have mastered the art of packing! I always say: pack lightly, live lightly.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

131. “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

132. “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

133. “I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

134. “I loved the seventies.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

135. “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

136. “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

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

— Diane Von Furstenberg

138. “Women never cease to impress and inspire me.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

139. “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.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

140. “Prepare your food attractively and serve it nicely.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

141. “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.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

142. “The whole point about beauty is its imperfection.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

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

— Diane Von Furstenberg

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

— Diane Von Furstenberg

145. “Clothes can hide you from yourself but a bikini sure can’t.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

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

— Diane Von Furstenberg

147. “Go to a place where you’re not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

148. “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

149. “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

150. “Landscapes change, people come and go, but all the landscapes, all the experiences, all the people weave into your life’s fabric. Love is not just about people you had affairs with. Love is about moments of intimacy, paying attention to others, connecting. As you learn love is everywhere, you find it everywhere.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg