Quotes from Diane von Furstenberg

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

You know I have never met a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.

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

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

All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength.