BIOGRAPHY:
Fashion Designer Diane von Furstenberg was born in Brussels, Belgium. She studied Economics at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where she met Austro-Italian Prince Egon von Furstenberg. They married and moved to New York, where son Alexandre and daughter Tatiana were bom. Today, the children are grown, and von Furstenberg runs the New York-based design and marketing studio bearing her name. Splitting her time between homes in Connecticut, New York, Paris, and the Bahamas, von Furstenberg is always on the go, gathering inspiration for ventures as eclectic as she is.
1972 DVF responds to void in American fashion by designing easy knit dresses
1975 Creates the light, romantic fragrance Tatiana, named for her young daughter; Licenses her name for full range of DVF products, from eyewear to luggage
1976 Sells 5 million wrap dresses, to land covers of Newsweek & The Wall Street Journal; Opens Madison Avenue cosmetics shop and publishes DVF's Book of Beauty
1977 Introduces the Style for Living collection of home furnishings
1979 Licenses dress business and focuses on building in-house cosmetics business
1983 Sells cosmetics business to British pharmaceutical giant Beecham Group Ltd. 1984-89 Ranks in top 10 in Savvy magazine's annual survey of "Top U.S. Businesses Run by Women"
1985 DVF moves to Paris and founds Salvy, a French-language publishing house Honored with New York Mayor's Liberty Medal for citizens of the world who have achieved the American dream
1989 Licensed DVF products sell over $1 billion dollars in the 1980's
1990 DVF returns to U.S.
1991 Publishes Beds, first coffee table book on the home, followed by The Bath ('93) & The Table ('96)
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