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Fashion & Design
Diane von Furstenberg
b. 1946Ixelles, BelgiumFirst-generation immigrantLiving
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Why Included
Fashion designer whose Italian lineage (Halfin family) and U.S. career reshaped American women's fashion through the wrap dress.
Notable For
- Created the wrap dress (1974) — five million sold in two years
- Founded DVF fashion brand
- President of the Council of Fashion Designers of America
Honors & Recognition
- Lifetime Achievement Award, Council of Fashion Designers of America (2005)
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Quick Facts
- Field
- Fashion & Design
- Years
- b. 1946
- Birth Place
- Ixelles, Belgium
- Origin
- First-generation immigrant
- Ancestry Verification
- Confirmed
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