The designer outlines her personal and professional journey in the no-holds-barred documentary on Hulu.
In 1882, the German philosopher Frederic Nietzche encouraged his readers—and later, scores of liberal arts majors who chain-smoked American Spirits and thought they were Ethan Hawke—to “become who you are.” About 100 years later,
Because of its premise, the movie could have tilted into inspiration porn. Instead, it becomes a fascinating push-and-pull between the urge to dismantle systems of power and the canny ways some women are allowed to tinker with those systems from within. Can you destroy a glass ceiling with a glass slipper? Von Furstenberg would say yes. Viewers might have a different take—or be inspired to grab the slipper and continue the annihilation.
They didn’t, but his family’s patronage allowed the von Furstenbergs to move to New York, where—after interning for a fabric manufacturer in Italy and a modeling agent in Paris—the young Diane began to make her own dresses. In 1974, she created her wrap dress, a garment that does exactly what it says it will—wraps around the entire body. Its slogan was, “Feel like a woman, wear a dress,” and one of its first patrons was then-editor Diana Vreeland.
Producer Fabiola Beracasa Beckman adds that though the movie—and von Furstenberg—are laser-focused on the importance of women’s rights and female financial empowerment, men can and should be active viewers, too. “I have sons, so I think about this a lot,” she says. “The patriarchy has served men in many ways and given them many advantages, but it's also incredibly damaging. It’s created this where men can only express themselves through anger or violence.
Aftergood says the dichotomy is intentional. “Diane said to me, ‘You're a young woman, you're an old woman, you're a pretty woman, you're an unattractive woman. You're alwayskind of woman that isn't the right kind of woman. So, who cares?’ She's a social butterfly; she's an activist; she’s a businesswoman; she's a princess; she’s the daughter of a Holocaust survivor who married a German.
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