• Diane von Furstenberg, inventor of the wrap costume, spoke about growing old in a brand new podcast interview. 
• Talking on Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ podcast, the designer stated individuals ought to keep away from the phrase “previous.”
• “Ageing for me is life, it isn’t a decay, it is a continuation of life,” von Furstenberg stated. 

Diane von Furstenberg acquired frank about her views on growing old in a latest look on Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ podcast, “Wiser Than Me.”

The long-lasting designer spent a lot of her chat with Louis-Dreyfus opening up concerning the evolution of her decades-spanning profession in trend and getting older.

Von Furstenberg is finest identified for being credited with the invention of the wrap costume in 1972. In 1988, she informed The New York Instances her designs turned so fashionable by 1975 that she was making 15,000 wrap clothes per week, Vogue reported. 

Now 76, von Furstenberg informed Louis-Dreyfus that her life experiences have solely made her that rather more appreciative of her age – a lot in order that she truly would favor individuals to cease asking her how previous she is however relatively, how lengthy she’s been alive. 

“I might change the world growing old and say dwelling,” she stated. “As a substitute of claiming ‘how previous are you?’ individuals ought to say ‘how lengthy have you ever lived?’”

In response to von Furstenberg, the straightforward change would “robotically” change the context and make growing old one thing to be celebrated, relatively than feared. 

“Ageing for me is life, it isn’t a decay, it is a continuation of life,” von Furstenberg added. 

The designer and Louis-Dreyfus additionally bonded over how they each have at all times beloved getting older relatively than desired being youthful. Requested about her ideas on individuals turning to cosmetic surgery to look younger, von Furstenberg stated she by no means judges however that she personally has at all times loved trying older. 

“I’ve by no means needed to be youthful, I at all times look ahead to being older,” she stated. “I do not choose anybody, everybody has a proper to do no matter they need.”

Due to that, she additionally stated she’d exchange the favored phrase “growing old gracefully” with “dwelling gracefully,” however stated that the definition of that phrase is as much as the person. 

And regardless of saying that she feels as if she is coming into “the winter” of her life, von Fusternberg stated she stays fairly lively. One of many issues she stated she finds most restorative is routinely swimming for 2 hours in the course of the ocean. 

“I swim quite a bit within the ocean very far,” she stated. “I’m alone between the ocean and the sky and I’m simply this tiny little dot and I’m going into deep meditation. That’s in all probability probably the most restorative factor.”