Fashion Icons Encyclopedia. Diane von Furstenberg.

Diane Von Furstenberg (1946) is a member of a limited group of female fashion designers that includes names like Vionnet, Chanel, and Lanvin. Diane Simone Michelle Halfin, the firm's soul and founder, was born in 1946 in Brussels to a rich Jewish family with Greek and Russian ancestors. Despite the fact that she and Prince Egon Von Furstenberg divorced in 1972, she chose to preserve her marriage name as well as her business name, Diane von Furstenberg. After a brief stay in Paris, he relocated permanently to New York, where the brand's headquarters are today housed in the heart of Manhattan.

Faced with a lack of clothing that would conform to his tastes and demands, he decided to create a shirt dress fastened at the waist in the early 1970s. Something practical and light, a part of the lived and demanded female freedom at the time. A utilitarian, basic, yet sultry garment that would be dubbed a wrap dress and serve as the brand's foundation. Diane, on the other hand, was a rookie to the sector, and despite – or perhaps because of – her huge success, she was forced to sell the company due to licensing issues and, above all, her lack of expertise.