Zoom screen, before her video sharply cuts out. “We’ll speak with the camera off,” she announces theatrically, “because I am still in bed.”It is 11am her time – the 74-year-old inventor of the wrap dress is at the country home in Connecticut that she sort of shares with her husband, media billionaire Barry Diller.
This house, she explains, is one which she bought for herself pre-Diller, when she was just 26 and was divorcing from her first husband, Prince Egon von Furstenberg.Ergo, the property is all about her, and she describes the decor as “grand comfort” with exclusively “huge” furniture. “In this house I’ve had everything: different boyfriends, different husbands, small children, big children, small grandchildren, big grandchildren,”.
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