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Born December 31, 1946, Brussels, Belgium - French and American fashion designer of Jewish descent. In 1942, according to false documents in the name of Leon Desmet, he settled in Switzerland, where he spent the war years, and after the war he opened a business selling electrical goods, which soon turned into the largest company in Belgium selling electronic tubes (as a result, Leon Halfin became known as "Monsieur Lampe Electronique"). Diana Khalfin's mother, Lilian Nahmiyas, came from a Sephardic family from Thessaloniki, from where she and her parents were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943. Leon Khalfin and Lilian Nahmiyas got married in 1946.
Parents broke up when Diana was 13 years old and she studied at boarding schools in Spain, Great Britain and Switzerland, then settled with her mother in Geneva. Diana met her future husband, Prince Egon von Furstenberg, when she entered the economics department of the University of Geneva in 1967. Egon belongs to the younger branch of the Swabian princely family. They got married in 1969, but divorced three years later. They had a daughter, Tatiana, and a son, Alexander. Since 1985 she has lived in Paris.
Diane von Furstenberg opened her first designer clothing line for women in 1970. Subsequently, she also took up the production of cosmetics.
In 2001, Diane von Furstenberg married American billionaire and media mogul Barry Diller and became a US citizen the following year. In 2002, Diana von Furstenberg published with her own preface and introductory remarks by Serge Klarsfeld the memoirs she discovered of her aunt (father's sister), a French gynecologist Sima Weissman (nee Wasserman, 1903, Orhei, Bessarabian province - 1997, Paris) - “Parmi les cris, un chant s'eleve: le temoignage exceptionnel d'une femme medecin deportee a Auschwitz "on deportation from Paris and imprisonment in Auschwitz (English edition -" A Jewish Doctor in Auschwitz: The Testimony of Sima Vaisman ", 2005; Italian edition - L'inferno sulla terra: La testimonianza di una dotoressa deportata ad Auschwitz, 2005) .
In August 2006, Diane von Furstenberg was named president of the prestigious American fashion organization, the American Council of Fashion Designers. Brother - Philip Khalfin - President of the Belgian corporation for the production of electronic tubes and semiconductors "Halfin".

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