Probably one of the most influential, admired, and colorful ladies of our time: designer and philanthropist Diane von Furstenberg tells the most personal tales from her existence, about family, love, beauty and business: “It’s so good, you’ll need to take notes” (People).

Diane von Furstenberg started having a suitcase filled with jersey dresses and a concept of who she wished to be-in her terms, “the kind of woman who’s indie and who doesn’t depend on a guy to pay her bills.” She has since become about The Woman I Wanted to Be that woman, building herself as a major force in the style industry, all the while raising a family group, maintaining 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 amazing life-from her childhood in Brussels to her days as a young, jet-set princess, to creating clothes that came to symbolize independence and power for generations of women. With exceptional honesty and wisdom, von Furstenberg mines the wealthy territory of what this means to be a female. She starts up on the subject of her family and career, conquering cancer, building a global brand, and devoting herself to empowering various other women. This “motivating, compelling, deliciously detailed celebrity autobiography…is as much of a smashing success as the driven, savvy, well-intentioned female who published it” (Chicago Tribune).