Diane Von Furstenburg Fashion Designer DVF Diane Von Furstenburg Biography
Diane Von Fürstenberg has started a number of successful businesses including a line of cosmetics and has ventured into the home-shopping business, which she started in 1991. In 1985 she moved to Paris, France where she founded Salvy, a French-language publishing house. From her design and marketing studio in a 19th century carriage house in West Greenwich Village in New York City, she currently creates a line of high-end women's apparel which is only offered in the most elite stores such as Bergdorf Goodman, Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Neiman Marcus.
In 1997, after more than a decade, she relaunched her high-end line. The collection has been successful, and von Furstenberg has been expanding to cities like L.A. and Paris, and bought a larger space in the meatpacking district in Manhattan. By 2005, the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) [2] awarded her a lifetime achievement award. In 2006, she was the CFDA president.
In 1998 she published her memoirs "DIANE: A Signature Life."
In 2001, she married American media mogul Barry Diller, and the following year she became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
In 2006, she appeared as a judge on several episodes of the Bravo reality television program Project Runway. Also, Diane teamed up with T-Mobile to design her own Limited Edition Sidekick 3, currently in stores.
Diane Von Furstenburg Website
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