Today I'm going to talk about the awesome, the amazing DIANE VON FÜRSTENBURG who is a big legend in the fashion industry!!!
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| The Reigning Queen of Fashion |
Her dresses are SOOO nice and elegant I thought to myself: "I simply have to do a post on her!!!"
Her elegance isn't just featured in her designs, it's in the way she walks, talks and comports herself due to the fact that she is a former princess but also, as Newsweek put it, she is: "the most marketable woman since Coco Chanel.”
She is inspiring to me because even after having married a prince, she still wanted to work : "The minute I knew I was about to be Egon's wife, I decided to have a career. I wanted to be someone of my own, and not just a plain little girl who got married beyond her desserts." How inspiring and awesome is that?
In her early career, she was recognised by famed Teen Vogue editor, Diane Vreeland. She then had her name listed on the Fashion Calendar for New York Fashion Week, and so her business was created. She has been working full time, juggling 4 collections a year, fragrances and of course, handbags.
She is best known for introducing the knitted jersey "wrap dress" in 1974, an example of which, due to its influence on women's fashion, is in the collection of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The New York Times reported that the annual retail sales for the company in 1979 was $150 million which is a HUGE amount of money but hey! her designs are so worth it, aren't they?
To me, DvF means a lot more than "designer dress" to me because her dresses make me feel confident and as my family pointed out, I sit up straighter and taller when I'm wearing my DvF dress.
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| My First DvF dress - bought at a vintage store in New York! |
Okay sorry for the gushy back to Princess Diane von Fürstenburg: In 1985, she moved to Paris, France where she founded Salvy, a French-language publishing house. Fürstenberg started a number of other businesses including a line of cosmetics and a home-shopping business, which she launched in 1991.
So to all you girls out there! See? You can only have so many dreams but the important thing is to make them come true! Diane von Fürstenburg made her dreams real so you can too, and remember, dreams are the most important adventure to pursue! ;)
Love,
Swissy&Sassy
