In a Sept. 9, 1976, article taken from the WWD archives, DVF talked style and self-expression.
“I prefer to see the physique in garments,“ says Diane von Furstenberg, who established herself with a enterprise based mostly on the body-conscious print gown, plus 14 different licensee divisions, together with sneakers and high-quality jewellery.
Furstenberg sees herself as a glamourpuss. She shines vivid at evening. The sunshine normally bounces from her mélange of costly jewellery, which generally is a mixture of David Webb Lucite and diamond cuffs with elegant vintage Victorian chains inlaid with stones to her personal designs of diamonds and gold.
“I spend some huge cash on jewellery as a result of I find it irresistible. I’ve a sense for it,” Furstenberg says.
At all times up entrance are bangles, pendants, shoulder scrapers and her favourite evening accent — a chic 18-karat gold minaudière.
“Minaudières are my favourite kind of issues and I hope to design them myself sometime. I like minaudières.”
Furstenberg typically dashed out at evening carrying fussy boas and long-haired furs over frilly attire with an excessive amount of jewellery earlier than she gained sufficient confidence as a businesswoman to put on her personal doggy print attire at evening occasions.
When she has an essential date with the person in her life in the mean time, she resorts to a drop-dead black slinky robe. Constant day or evening is the Furstenberg lioness mane of hair framing a face that appears as if it has minimal make-up, though it’s utilized with most element.
Furstenberg walks by way of the 4 seasons in her favourite coloration of pantyhose: black. She at all times wears pantyhose as a result of she sits in an unorthodox method. She feels proper at house wherever, together with her personal bordello peach banquette, together with her legs tucked up or her toes propped on the seat. She at all times feels female in very excessive, excessive heels. Not often is she seen in a shoe that appears flat, snug or straightforward to stroll in.
“Fantasy ought to come from the girl herself — how she talks, how she strikes and accessorizes herself,” says the tycoon, who now not makes use of her acquired-by-marriage title of princess.
