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.
Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.
I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never.
I always wear what I'm comfortable in. If one designer doesn't like what I'm wearing, the next one will.
On a hanger, no dress is sexy. It's just fabric on a hanger.
I love black dresses. I think everyone should own a lot, but black dresses don't sell online because on the computer they don't read like anything.
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