Step aside, platform shoes, flower-power prints and hippie head scarves. Make room for the queen of the wrap dress, Diane von Furstenberg. Her wrap dress embodied female empowerment in the 1970s, so much so that it is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and no doubt it influenced the judges who honored her with a star on the Fashion Walk of Fame on Seventh Avenue in New York’s Garment District on May 21. In 1976, she sold more than 5 million wrap dresses, garnering DVF and her signature piece cover stories in Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal. The wrap is beloved because its stretchy fabric can be adjusted around the waist and bodice so that it complements just about any figure. For summer 2008, DVF created fashion-forward but looking-back looks, including the Nalia dress (pictured), which comes in pure azalea pink silk with a multicolor paisley dotted-leaf pattern and harlequin-print trim ($365), the Arianna wrap dress in navy silk shantung ($385) and the silky Safaya wrap dress in parchment ($585), which reflects the safari influence in summer fashion. The Jilda has a vintage-inspired graphic print and short sleeves with rolled cuffs ($325). The Stones Wrap works well as a bathing suit cover-up or the perfect little dress for travel and sightseeing ($210). Go faux wrap with this flattering DVF imitation by Quotation Design History for only $88.