Diane von Furstenberg — fashion with roots in the Russian Empire
Diane von Furstenberg is a Belgian-American fashion designer and businesswoman best known for inventing the wrap dress in 1974 — a garment that became a feminist fashion icon and has sold over five million copies. She served as President of the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
Tracing the roots — Kishinev (Moldova)
Her father Leon Halfin was a Jewish immigrant from Kishinev (now Chisinau, Moldova, then Russian Empire) — a city infamous for the brutal 1903 pogrom that triggered one of the great waves of Jewish emigration. DVF has spoken about her mother's survival of the Holocaust and her family's refugee history as the foundation of her philosophy of strength and independence.
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Kishinev (Moldova). At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
"I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be."