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| Diane von Fürstenberg |
Diane Simone Michelle Halfin was born in Brussels, Belgium to Jewish parents. Her father was Romanian-born Leon (Lipa) Halfin, who immigrated to Belgium from Chişinău (then Bessarabia province of Romania and now the capital of Moldova) in 1929.[4] Her mother was Greek-born Liliane Nahmias, a Holocaust survivor. Just 18 months before Diane was born, her mother was in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Diane has spoken broadly about her mother’s influence in her life, crediting her for teaching her that “Fear is not an option.”[5] Diane later studied economics at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. She then moved to Paris and worked as an assistant to fashion photographer’s agent, Albert Koski.[1] She left Paris for Italy to work as an apprentice to textile manufacturer Angelo Ferretti in his factory, where she learned about cut, color and fabric.[1] It was here that she designed and produced her first silk jersey dresses... [source: Wikipedia]
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| Diane von Fürstenberg, born 1946, pictured in 2009. |
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