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!

The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.

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.

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.

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

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

I design for the woman who loves being a woman.

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

I always knew the woman I wanted to be-I knew I wanted to be a woman who was independent a woman who was in the driving seat, a woman who didn't need for the man to decide.

I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important.

The older I get, the more impressed I am with women. I have yet to meet a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.

Don't be afraid of your own strength.

You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.

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

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.

Building a wardrobe is like building a circle of friends your whole life.... Your own beauty is to be yourself, but of course we need tools and accessories.

I don't like to talk about my dreams. I like to make them happen. I prefer to talk about them when they're done.

Some fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince... some start there.

My mother said that we're so lucky to be women. It's not that men are weak. Men are men. We're two completely different animals.

I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.

You only regret what you don't do! Go for it, live your dreams and enjoy it all!