“I was having a man’s life in a woman’s body.”
When Diane von Furstenberg’s signature wrap dresses first took off in 1974, they became an emblem of the modern woman’s promise of independence and poise as she traversed the newly competing worlds of family life and the workplace. Behind the scenes, the designer was herself fulfilling that promise—having, as she says in the trailer for a new documentary, “a man’s life in a woman’s body.
Born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1946, DVF’s story began as World War II ended. As she notes in the documentary, though she is best known for the frocks that made her famous, most people don’t know that her mother narrowly escaped death at Auschwitz. That story of survival propelled DVF into the nonstop pursuit of a life worth living, which included marrying a German prince, Egon von Furstenberg, at 22, despite his family’s hesitations.
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