Diane von Furstenberg is a Belgian-American fashion designer best known for her wrap dress and beautiful designs. In 1970, with a $30,000 investment, she began designing women's clothes. "The minute I knew I was about to be a wife, I decided to have a career. I wanted to be someone of my own, and not just a plain little girl who got married beyond her desserts." (Her former husband also became a fashion designer in 1974.) She is best known for introducing the knitted jersey "wrap dress" in 1973, an example of which, due to its influence on women's fashion, is in the collection of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1985 she moved to Paris, France where she founded Salvy, a French-language publishing house. Furstenberg has started a number of other businesses including a line of cosmetics and a home-shopping business which she started in 1991. Professionally and personally, she uses von with her surname instead of the usual zu used by the House of Furstenberg (the latter term is rarely encountered outside of Europe). As her advertising campaigns and company letterhead indicate, she also prefers to spell her surname with no umlaut. Earlier in her career however, until the late 1990s, her company's labels included either an umlaut or a squiggle in its place.
I love Diane von Furstenberg! Powerful & Classy :)
xoxo RitzyNina
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