Many of us would probably  like to re-write history at one time or another but few of us would get away with it as well as Diane Von Furstenberg. who has skated through a great deal of her life staking claim to being the designer of the ‘wrap dress’ .That wouldn’t sit well with the late couturier  Elsa Schiaparelli  who designed them in the 1930s and by Claire McCardell in the 1940s, whose original ‘popover‘ design, which was made out of denim, became the basis for a variety of wrap-around dresses. And lest we forget also in the Fashion designer Charles James also designed a wrap dress.

We haven’t yet caught sight of the new documentary series  Diana Von Furstenbrg Woman in Charge that opened the Tribeca Film Festival last night so we are not sure if they let this claim go unchallenged, but we are hoping the film is not as ‘bland’ as Indiewire wrote this morning, 

But their very definite parts of Von Furstenberg’s life that seemed routed in fairytales, like having married (a very gay) Prince for 3 years back in the 1960’s .  She left him taking her two children and his title, losing the latter when they divorced in 1983.

Von Furstenberg married again in 2023 to a gay billionaire businessman Barry Diller, who’s resume includes founding the Fox Broadcasting Corporation .  According to a profile piece by Maureen  Dowd in this week’s New York Times the couple maintain separate residences in New York

As a business women she always lived her life as aa publically as possible creatung out her own niche.  Like In 2006, getting elected President of The Council of Fashion Designers of America, (CFDA), after winning the Andre Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.  However, on occasion the accolades overshadowed the roller-coast  life  of her fashion business which hemorrhaged so much money that In 2020, DVF closed 18 of its 19 USA stores permanently^]

DIANE VON FURSTENBERG: WOMAN IN CHARGE 
will exclusively be streaming globally on Hulu 
on June 25th