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.
Interpretation
The fashion industry must promote a positive and healthy image of women rather than objectifying and dehumanizing them.
Diane Von Furstenberg emphasizes that the fashion industry holds a significant responsibility in how women are perceived and represented. Instead of reducing women to mere numbers and objectifying them, the industry should advocate for a healthy image that empowers women and respects their dignity.
In practice
In discussions about body positivity at a fashion conference.
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.
Fashion should be about making clothes that make all women look beautiful, not making women starve so that they can fit in a size 8.
When I started Giorgio Armani in the mid-'70s, I realized that women needed a way to dress that was equivalent to that of men - something that would give them dignity, an attitude that would help them handle their work life.
I am in a fabulously lucky position in that I get to wear beautiful, beautiful gowns for functions, which I can then give back. That way, they're not sitting in my wardrobe with me looking at them and feeling guilty. I love that, and I think when people have a fabulous function to go to, I'd recommend renting.
Fashion goes in only one direction -forward- and I am a firm believer in thinking that way too.
I want my clothes, my stores, everything I design to have that feeling of being natural and easy. And that takes effort, but you try not to have it show.
People, when they say 'streetwear,' they miss the central component, which is that it's real people; it's clothes that are worn on the street.
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