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.
Interpretation
Building relationships is akin to curating a personal style; authenticity and supportive elements are essential.
Diane Von Furstenberg's quote draws a parallel between the process of curating a wardrobe and fostering friendships throughout life. It emphasizes the importance of being true to oneself while recognizing that just as we use tools and accessories to enhance our style, we also rely on friendships and connections to enrich our lives and express our true beauty.
In practice
During a speech at a fashion event, one might quote this to emphasize the importance of personal connections.
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.
The white actresses I have known have been allowed to do 10 times more than I shall ever do.
Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope.
There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once.
Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair. "No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.
Who can say what heartbreaks are caused in a dog by our discontinuing a romp?
A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.
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