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.
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
All it takes are a few simple outfits. And there's one secret - The Simpler The Better
I'm never massively concerned about what somebody is wearing, as long as it makes them feel really good about themselves.
You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
Vogue always did stand for people's lives. I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later.
You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.
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