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If there is one rule for dressing, for fashion, it’s pretty much the same rule as for everything else in life: Don’t go against yourself, don’t go against your own nature. It’s only going to show.

Diane von Furstenberg

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Diane von Furstenberg
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 31
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Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood.
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I sit in the sink (while applying makeup). I do. I've broken more sinks...I sit in the sink, on top of a big square sink in my bathroom with my feet in the basin so I'm very close to the mirror with the good light, and I'm very comfortable. I also manage to put my two phones in the sink so that nothing, but nothing, could get me out of there.
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The girls who were unanimously considered beautiful often rested on their beauty alone. I felt I had to do things, to be intelligent and develop a personality in order to be seen as attractive. By the time I realized maybe I wasn't plain and might even possibly be pretty, I had already trained myself to be a little more interesting and informed.
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I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.
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As the president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, I represent the designers. And while we can by no means take the blame for eating disorders, we can play our part in addressing this important issue.
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Generosity is the best investment.
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We are living in such a troubled world that fashion seems completely irrelevant. Yet...it's a very, very mysterious thing. Why all of a sudden do people like yellow? Why all of a sudden do people wear combat boots?
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Do I believe in reincarnation? Well, let's say that I believe in karma. I think you make your own karma.
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The success of every single woman is the inspiration for another.
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I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.
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I design for the woman who loves being a woman.
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Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that's not outrageous.
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I get ideas about what's essential when packing my suitcase.
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Italy will always have the best food.
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Don't be afraid of your own strength.
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Fashion is a mysterious energy, a visual moment-impossible to predict where it goes.
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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.
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Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.
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It's like learning to fall properly. If you can manage not to tighten up you won't hurt yourself as much. The same theory applies to your day, physically and emotionally. The tensions simply can't take hold.
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The other day I went to a school in Harlem to talk to some 7th graders [12-year-olds] and I said, ‘If I have to give you some advice, the most important thing is: the sooner you become your own best friend, the better your life will be,’
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