Diane von Furstenberg on Embracing Age and Taking the Selfie

When you’ve ever gotten the birthday blues, enable designer Diane von Furstenberg to forcefully yank you proper out of them. 

The 76-year-old, who created the long-lasting wrap gown, which stays beloved the world round, appeared on Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s Wiser Than Me podcast this week and shared her knowledge about ageing, vogue, and the significance of mirror selfie. 

“I really feel that I’ve lived each single day of my life,” von Furstenberg stated. “In that life, in that brief life, although I’m 76, I’ve piled up a lot that I actually couldn’t really feel any youthful. I’m who I’m.”

She doesn’t draw back from saying how outdated she is, she stated, as a result of “I really like being alive. That’s how lengthy I’ve been alive, so sure.” She went on to name ageing “the proof of residing.” 

And she or he’s sharing that proof: Final yr, she made headlines for posting a swimsuit mirror selfie to her Instagram, mentioning within the caption that “I really feel silly smiling at myself.” 

And by the way in which, she nonetheless swims within the sea about two hours a day, although she wears a full-body swimsuit with SPF safety to deal with her pores and skin. Von Furstenberg had a bout with tongue most cancers at age 47, and has been cancer-free since 1994.

Proudly owning and loving her self-image stays necessary to the designer, she stated. 

“I generally tend to suppose that, at the least in my case, after I have a look at myself within the mirror, I discover my energy there,” she stated. “So by some means, after I have a look at myself within the mirror, I prefer it after which generally I see an image of me and I say, ‘Oh my God, that is not how I really feel like.” 

She additionally revealed that the gown that made her well-known isn’t essentially considered one of her go-to silhouettes; she prefers flowier designs over the wrap gown, as she doesn’t really feel she has a small waist that she’d like to spotlight. 

“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 identification,” she stated.