Diane von Furstenberg’s Little Wrap Dress

“Dressing up was a ritual that put her in a serious mood: the cloth was no longer a mere fabric, it was becoming the matter of the thing and it was this material to which with her body she gave body—how could a simple rag gain such movement?”

—Clarice Lispector in An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures

Diane von Furstenberg walks onstage at Graham Chapel and in one fluid movement, sits and throws her head back. Not with the abandon of her Studio 54 days, just with ease. Her smile is wide, her hair long and curly, and at seventy-six, she has neither had nor needed any “work.” At a glance, you can see the natural, relaxed sensuousness that shows up in both her designs and her life. Which are, after all, inseparable.

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