The Woman I Wanted to Be Audiobook (Free)

Perhaps one of the most influential, admired, and colorful ladies of our period: fashion designer and philanthropist Diane von Furstenberg tells the most personal tales from her life, about family, like, beauty and business: “It’s so good, you’ll desire to take notes” (People).

Diane von Furstenberg started having a suitcase full of shirt dresses and an idea of who she wished to be-in her terms, “the type of woman who’s individual and who doesn’t depend on a man to pay her bills.” She’s since become about The Woman I Wanted to become that woman, creating herself as a major force in the style industry, all the while raising a family, preserving that “my children are my biggest creation.”

In THE GIRL I Wanted to become, “an intriguing page-turner filled with revelations” (More), von Furstenberg reflects on her behalf amazing life-from her childhood in Brussels to her days as a, jet-set princess, to creating the dress that came to symbolize independence and power for generations of women. With remarkable honesty and knowledge, von Furstenberg mines the wealthy territory of what it means to be always a girl. She opens up approximately her family members and career, conquering cancer, building a global brand, and devoting herself to empowering additional females. This “motivating, compelling, deliciously complete celebrity autobiography…is certainly as a lot of a smashing success as the driven, savvy, well-intentioned female who composed it” (Chicago Tribune).