Diane von Fürstenberg (born December 31, 1946) is a Belgian-American fashion designer best known for her hallmark wrap dress.
Diane Simone Michelle Halfin was born in Brussels, Belgium into an upper-middle class Jewish household. Her father was Russian-born Leon (Lipa) Halfin, who immigrated to Belgium from Chişinău (then Bessarabia) in 1929. Her mother was Greek-born Liliane Nahmias, a Holocaust survivor. She studied economics at the University ...
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Diane von Fürstenberg (born December 31, 1946) is a Belgian-American fashion designer best known for her hallmark wrap dress.
Diane Simone Michelle Halfin was born in Brussels, Belgium into an upper-middle class Jewish household. Her father was Russian-born Leon (Lipa) Halfin, who immigrated to Belgium from Chişinău (then Bessarabia) in 1929. Her mother was Greek-born Liliane Nahmias, a Holocaust survivor. She studied economics at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.
At university, when she was 18, she met Prince Egon of Fürstenberg, the elder son of a German prince and his first wife, an heiress to the Fiat automotive fortune. Married in 1969 and divorced three years later, the couple had two children, Prince Alexander von Furstenberg (born six months after their wedding) and Princess Tatiana, who were born in New York City. She is now the grandmother of three children. The Fürstenbergs' marriage, though not popular with the groom's family because of the bride's religion, was...
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