Quotes from Diane von Furstenberg
The fashion industry has a responsibility to represent a healthy image of women, but to start weighing them and putting them against a wall and making them feel like animals? No.
- Diane von Furstenberg
I've been working seriously in giving fashion a place that it deserves.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Italy will always have the best food.
- 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
You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
- Diane von Furstenberg
I was lucky enough to have it all. To be successful in business, to have children, to raise them on my own, and to travel and live my life. It was a lot of work, but it's a privilege to have been able to do it.
- Diane von Furstenberg
I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.
- 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
The way I design generally is very much travel-oriented because that is my life. That's why I make clothes that are so light and so easy to pack and a little bit seasonless.
- Diane von Furstenberg
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
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
I was lucky because I got so successful so early, and when you get successful early, then you can afford to be a little bit humble.
- Diane von Furstenberg