![]() ![]() He would have lost his mind on social media.Īndy Warhol, Diane von Fürstenberg and Monique van Vooren at the premiere of Warhol’s film Flesh for Frankenstein, May 1974. He would take your picture and say: “Oh great, that’s great.” He certainly was a visionary in terms of where the world was going, in terms of branding, icons. Your friend Andy Warhol photographed you. I had a lot of fun, but at the base, I was a serious person. I am happy that I didn’t hold back and yet I never lost myself. I don’t know how to answer that question. Do you think human sexuality is more fluid than we sometimes admit? I think a lot of women have had infatuations with women. ![]() You confess in your book to an “infatuation” with a girl and also mention that people said your husband, TV and film mogul Barry Diller, had never been with a woman before your relationship. Two days ago, I received an email from a 90-year-old who was also a survivor of the camps – a beautiful, strong, positive woman – and she emailed me because she’d read the book and she said: “I want you to know you not only honoured your mother, you honoured all us survivors.” One of the great things about this book is that I think I honour her. Yeah, she was proud of me but she would tell other people more than she would tell me. She only died 14 years ago, so she saw me as a full woman and she saw my children as parents. She would say: “Why are you afraid? That just makes it worse.” Fear is not an option. It was part of the biggest gift she gave me. ![]() You say that she taught you not to feel frightened. You write movingly about your mother, Liliane, a Holocaust survivor who was interned in Auschwitz because of her work for the Belgian resistance. The truth is, this book is so meaningful for me because I’ve never gone to therapy and this book was like therapy. ![]() I didn’t want to call myself a designer for so long and all of a sudden, I realised, I did more than a fashion statement with this dress. It was only last year I decided I would celebrate this brand through the exhibition. For a while, I lost the personality of my brand and a little bit of confidence. This little dress I took for granted, even though it had paid for everything I had – the houses, my children’s education, everything! I never sat down and realised the impact of it. The wrap dress is 40 years old this year and it’s still your most famous creation. an extraordinary adventure.ĭiane von Fürstenberg signs copies of The Woman I Wanted to Be the opening of the new DVF boutique in Santa Monica. From the very, very beginning, it was this incredible dialogue with other women. I was becoming this woman because of fashion, because of my little dress, and as I was getting more confidence, I was also sharing my confidence with other women through the dress. The wonderful thing is that I became that woman through designing the dress and through its success. So are you now the woman you wanted to be? You know, the truth is, I became the woman I wanted to be very, very early in my life, I think in my late 20s. You’ve just written a memoir, The Woman I Wanted to Be. The thing I’m afraid of is that I wouldn’t recognise myself and then I would become insecure. You have to be non-delusional in order to like yourself but if you are straight to yourself, you will also be nice to yourself. And don’t waste your time! Be hard on yourself. The biggest advice I can give anyone is that the most important relationship you have is with yourself and then any other relationship is a plus, not a minus. The thing that makes me happy is I didn’t waste my time in my youth. What does it mean, “being young”? I am the way I am. You have to make the most of it.ĭo you miss being young? I don’t miss anything about being young. As I’m talking to you, I’m doing my make-up and I can’t possibly say I love ageing or that I love my face, but this is my face. Ageing means living, right? And if you live and you’re aged, it means you have a past and if you’re OK with your past and have lived it fully, then it’s OK. No, no, wait a minute! I don’t love ageing but, you know, the alternative to ageing – you don’t want that. You’ve said in the past you love ageing because it gives you experience. ![]()
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