Diane von Furstenberg Has No Regrets: ‘I Will Laugh When I Die’

We only get to live one life. Philosopher Simone de Beauvoir dreamt of something beyond that when she said, “I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, i... See more

Everything she did—what she wore, how she lived—now came into line with this principle. Forget self. She kept her physical needs very simple, which gave her more energy for her work. She dressed, as Stanton had urged, simply and conservatively, so as not to draw attention to her own person—always in dignified black. Susan loved colorful clothes. Bu

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