Diane: A Signature Life
eBook - ePub

Diane: A Signature Life

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Diane: A Signature Life

About this book

The frank and compelling story of an extraordinary woman and her adventures in fashion, business, and life. "Most fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince. That's where mine began, " says Diane Von Furstenberg. Von Furstenberg lived the American Dream before she was thirty, building a multimillion-dollar fashion empire while raising two children and living life in the fast lane. Her wrap dress, a cultural phenomenon in the seventies, hangs in the Smithsonian Institution; her entry into the beauty business in 1979 was as serendipitous and as successful.Von Furstenberg learned her trade in the trenches, crisscrossing the country to make personal appearances at department stores, selling her dresses and cosmetics. That business had its ups and downs, as the fashionista entrepreneur's unparalleled success became the source of its own undoing and she contended with bankruptcy, the loss of her business, and finally a complete self-reinvention that took her back to the top of the industry. This revealing and contemplative memoir works to make sense of the contradictions of the author's life: glamour vs. hard work, European vs. American, daughter of a Holocaust survivor vs. wife of an Austro-Italian prince, mother vs. entrepreneur, lover vs. tycoon. She emerges wiser, stronger, and ever more determined never to sacrifice her passion for life.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Author’s Note and Acknowledgments
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Chapter One: Birth Pains
  6. Chapter Two: Weaving the Fabric
  7. Chapter Three: How Not to Start a Business
  8. Chapter Four: My Life as a Tycoon
  9. Chapter Five: The Woman I Always Wanted to Be
  10. Chapter Six: The Other Woman in Me
  11. Chapter Seven: The Hard Road Home
  12. Epilogue
  13. Photographs
  14. Copyright