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  1. Diane von Fürstenberg (born Diane Simone Michele Halfin; 31 December 1946) [2] is a Belgian fashion designer best known for her wrap dress. [3] [4] [5] [6] She initially rose to prominence in 1969 when she married into the German princely House of Fürstenberg, as the wife of Prince Egon von Fürstenberg. Following their separation in 1972 and ...

  2. Oct 11, 2024 · Diane von Furstenberg (born December 31, 1946, Brussels, Belgium) is a Belgian-born designer and businesswoman who made a lasting contribution to fashion design with her flattering but practical wrap dress. Early life, education, and marriage

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  3. Sep 17, 2006 · It begins like this. In the spring of 1944, Lily Nahmias, aged nineteen, was arrested in Brussels and sent to a concentration camp. On the train to the camp she attached herself to a motherly ...

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  4. Nov 27, 2023 · Survival is at the heart of Belgium-born Von Fürstenberg’s story. Her mother, Liliane Halfin, was taken to Auschwitz on a cattle train at 21, and later moved to Ravensbrück. When liberation came 13 months later, “She was a bag of bones in a field of ashes”.

  5. Jun 6, 2024 · At 28, Ms. von Furstenberg was already a sensation with the phenomenally successful $86 wrap dress; she had conjured it after seeing Julie Nixon Eisenhower on TV defending her father during ...

  6. Von Furstenberg, 77, launched her famous wrap dress in America in 1974 and told me, by “some magic thing, it took off”. That magic appears to be a combination of fashion flair, drive and timing.

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