Age is nothing however a quantity for this designer.
Diane von Furstenberg shared her youthful outlook in a brand new episode of Julia Louis Dreyfus’ podcast, “Wiser Than Me,” yesterday, saying that though she’s 76, she “actually must be 300.”
“In that life, in that brief life, regardless that I’m 76, I’ve piled up a lot that I actually couldn’t really feel any youthful,” she says within the interview. “I’m who I’m.”
The style legend shares that she loves being her age as a result of, “I like being alive. That’s how lengthy I’ve been alive, so sure.”
“I’d change the phrase growing older and say dwelling,” she says, suggesting that folks ask “how lengthy have you ever lived” as an alternative of “how previous are you?”
Getting older, in actual fact, is one thing von Furstenberg has all the time regarded ahead to doing.
“I by no means needed to be somewhat lady, I all the time needed to be a lady,” she says.
As for her “inspirational” swimsuit mirror selfies, von Furstenberg says, “I generally tend to assume that, not less than in my case, after I have a look at myself within the mirror, I discover my power there.”
The designer continues, “One way or the other, after I have a look at myself within the mirror, I prefer it after which typically I see an image of me and I say, ‘Oh my God, that’s not how I really feel like.’”
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The philanthropist and creator — who not too long ago identified that each Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle as soon as wore her Zarita gown — tells the podcast that girls ought to preserve staples of their closet that replicate their true selves, however “a black turtleneck” is one factor everybody ought to spend money on.
Apart from a turtleneck, the designer additionally in fact talked about her iconic wrap gown, saying, “I created the wrap gown, however really, it’s the gown that created me as a result of it gave me my freedom, it gave me my independence.”
Though the DVF founder says that she doesn’t have a small waist so the fashion doesn’t really go well with her, Louis Dreyfuss shares that von Furstenberg’s well-known gown was “the primary kind of fashiony factor that I wore that made me really feel like ‘oh I don’t thoughts my physique a lot.’”