Oprah Winfrey and Diane von Furstenberg spoke about Venice, women empowerment, the American Dream and Kamala Harris ahead of the DVF Awards.
von Furstenberg and Winfrey spoke at the fashion designer’s stunning apartment in the 15th-century Palazzo Giustinian Brandolini on the Grand Canal — a marvel of stuccoed or wooden carved ceilings and frescoed rooms.
Von Furstenberg and Winfrey, both in a shirt and pants combo — the former in a white and green graphic print and the latter in a vivid royal blue hue, were generous with their time, approaching subjects that spanned from mentorship to politics, following Winfrey’s endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and her speech at the Democratic National Convention last week.
In particular, she was excited about giving an award to Graça Machel, the women’s and children’s rights advocate founder of the Graça Machel Trust and the Foundation for Community Development, whom she described as “a mentor and a friend over the years.” “This is also very much what leads me in Venice, in this place, at this stage of my life, since I’ve entered the winter of my life. I’ve had a full life. I’ve had a big life,” von Furstenberg said
This year, in addition to Machel, the honorees include Jacinda Ardern, the former prime minister of New Zealand; cofounder of Women Wage Peace Yael Admi; cofounder and director of Women of the Sun Reem Al-Hajajreh; Xiye Bastida, climate justice activist and cofounder of Re-Earth Initiative, and Alessandra Kustermann, reproductive rights advocate and president of SVS Donna Help Donna.
Asked about the main challenges Harris may be facing, Winfrey said that she believes “in all of our lives, everything that has happened before this moment prepares you for the moment that you’re in right now. So I think that her years as a prosecutor, the fact that she ran her own campaign, that she has been behind the scenes as vice president and with Diane we have talked about this, she literally came out of the shadows.
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