WATCH: The Secret Behind Diane Von Furstenberg's Post-Divorce Success
Any fashionista worth her salt has a Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress -- or a DvF knock-off -- in her closet. As ubiquitous as von Furstenberg's designs are today, you might figure that the famed designer had her whole career planned out from the get-go. Not exactly, she says.
"I never knew what I wanted to do but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be," the fashion icon says in the clip above. "I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life -- and I became that woman."