Egon von Fürstenberg

Prince

Male

Born Jun 29, 1946

Died Jun 11, 2004

Egon von Fürstenberg or Prince Egon of Fürstenberg was a fashion designer.

Romance

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Lynn Marshall

Married 1983
Diane von Fürstenberg
Married 1969 - 1983

Family

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Egon von Fürstenberg

d.2004

parents

Tassilo von Fürstenberg

Father, d.1989
Clara Agnelli

Mother, Age 93

siblings

Ira von Fürstenberg
Sister, Age 73
Sebastian von Fürstenberg

Brother

children

Tatiana von Fürstenberg
Daughter, Age 42
Alexander von Furstenberg
Son

News + Updates

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Watch: The Secret Behind Diane Von Furstenberg's Post Divorce Success
Huffington Post - Mar 01, 2013

Any fashionista worth her salt has a Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress -- or a DvF knock-off -- in her closet. As ubiquitous as von Furstenberg's designs are today, you might figure that the famed designer had her whole career planned out from the get-go. Not exactly, she says. "I never knew what I wanted to do but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be," the fashion icon says in the clip above. "I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman ...
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What You Don't Know About Dvf's Famous Wrap Dress
Huffington Post - Nov 09, 2012

Any fashion-forward woman likely has at least one Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress in her closet. But what these fashionistas may not know is that the iconic frock was actually inspired by the designer's divorce. Instead of asking for alimony from her ex-husband, German Prince Egon von Furstenberg, after their 1972 divorce, she decided to make it on her own and introduced her now-legendary signature wrap dress instead. "Usually the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying t...
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Up Close; Tatiana Von Furstenberg On Her Film ‘tanner Hall’
NYTimes - Sep 15, 2011

DIAMONDS glinted like tiny asteroids on Tatiana Von Furstenberg’s fingers, every one of them a talisman of sorts. There was the domelike gem she inherited from her father, the faceted stone that was a gift from her former husband and another that belonged to her maternal grandmother. Kissing each of them reverently, Ms. Von Furstenberg
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After 39 Years, Nutley Clothier Closing North Jersey.Com
Google News - Aug 25, 2011

Naturally, a line of suits was up next and, when not tending to his growing business, Daniels found time to participate in more than 100 fashion shows, many featuring Prince Eduard Egon von Furstenberg, husband of designer Diane von Furstenberg
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1946 Birth Born on June 29, 1946.

TWENTIES

1969 23 Years Old On 16 July 1969 at Montfort l'Amaury, Yvelines, France, he married the Belgium-born Diane Simone Michelle Halfin, daughter of a Holocaust survivor. She was Jewish and pregnant, and the senior Fürstenbergs objected to the couple's union for those reasons. They had two children, Prince Alexander von Furstenberg (b. 25 January 1970) and Princess Tatiana Desirée (b. 16 February 1971), and were divorced in 1972. … Read More

THIRTIES

1981 35 Years Old Fürstenberg wrote two top selling books: The Power Look, a guide to fashion and good taste, and The Power Look at Home: Decorating for Men, a book on home furnishings. He created an interior design firm in 1981. … Read More

1983 37 Years Old In 1983 Egon married a Mississippi native, Lynn Marshall (born ca. 1950). … Read More

FIFTIES

2000 54 Years Old Fürstenberg had earlier intimated in a New York Magazine article that he was bisexual. In June 2000 he then made his 'coming out' as a bisexual in an interview published by the Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica

2004 58 Years Old Died on June 11, 2004.

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