Diane von Furstenberg Quotes - Page 6

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

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.

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.

The only way for a relationship to survive, I think, is to have no sex at all. After all, you marry for friendship, for companionship - and passion after a while ... pfffft. I mean, does it excite you when your left hand touches your right?

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.

Fashion is a mysterious energy, a visual moment-impossible to predict where it goes.

My clothes are great for a honeymoon: They're light and sexy, colorful and pretty, and not expensive.

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 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.

Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.

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

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

I gave up on my looks a long time ago.

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

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

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

A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.

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

Fashion Week is so important for designers.

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.

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

Resisting a beautiful chocolate cake or a wonderful foie gras is as difficult as (the idea of) saying no to Paul Newman.

Fashion can be this mysterious thing that you can't explain.

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.

I had a very down-to-earth product, my wrap dress, which was really a uniform. It was just a simple little cotton-jersey dress that everybody loved and everybody wore. That one dress sold about 3 or 4 million. I would see 20, 30 dresses walking down one block. All sorts of different women. It felt very good. Young and old, and fat and thin, and poor and rich.