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Welcome the woman
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[chuckles] Is that right?

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She re-- reinvented the dress?

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-[Frank] Love it.
-And bec--

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-[laughter]
-Frank's wearing one this morning.

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And became one of America's
most successful businesswomen,

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Diane von Furstenberg.

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[audience applauding]

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[inaudible dialogue]

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Rein-- Reinvented the dress,

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what do they, what do they,
what do we mean by that?

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I created what was called the wrap dress,

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and I wrapped America around.

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I mean, everybody had, I mean,

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you see those wrap dresses
going up and down the streets.

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How old were you at this time?
Was that a--

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-Twenty-two.
-Twenty-two.

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The 22-year-old women that I know
are cheerleaders, you know?

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-They...
-[audience laughs]

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Uh, and, and how do you, um...

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how do you get to be a princess?

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Well, in my case, I married a prince.

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[audience laughs]

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Okay.

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[Oprah Winfrey] My first impression
of Diane von Furstenberg was,

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"Now there's a woman."

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[♪ "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves"
by Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin playing]

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[TV presenter 1] Diane von Furstenberg,
a true feminist icon,

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changed the face of fashion
with a single wrap dress.

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[TV presenter 2] The wrap dress
made Diane von Furstenberg

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a household name and a fashion tycoon.

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Diane was one of the very first women

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who'd really broken through, uh,
the glass ceiling in business.

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DVF, those three letters as in, you know,
logo, is known all over the world.

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[speaker 1] What other brand
can you think about

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that's had a dress
that still sells 50 years later?

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But Diane is more than a fashion designer,
she's an icon.

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[Nathan Jenden]
Diane blazed a trail, really.

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Every woman's a woman in charge now.

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Every woman's on the go, and that's Diane.

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[Linda Bird Francke]
She's without boundary.

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She loved to say
that she was living a man's life,

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but she did it in high heels. [chuckles]

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I think DVF is one of the youngest people
that I've ever met.

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The first one on the dance floor,
the last one at the party.

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[speaker 2]
She is the sexiest woman I know.

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[speaker 3]
Sex was part of her brand.

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[speaker 4] She's very unapologetic
about who she is.

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Diane is very clever,
you know, she's a hustler.

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[Gloria Steinem] She wasn't trying
to become the only woman in a male club.

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She was changing
the whole nature of the club.

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[Marc Jacobs]
Sometimes what makes history

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is when you go against
what you're told is okay to do.

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And Diane had the strength to do it.

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[Diane von Furstenberg] I made
an enormous amount of money very quickly,

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and then all of a sudden,
woom, lost it all.

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[Anderson Cooper]
If you look at her from afar,

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you just see this successful person

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and you think, oh, maybe
it's been really easy for her.

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But when you actually hear her story

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and where she came from,
you realize it's hard-earned.

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[speaker 5]
She's a survivor. She never stopped.

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♪ Here we come now ♪

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-♪ Sisters are doin' it for themselves ♪
-♪ We're doin' and we're doin' ♪

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♪ And we're doin' it, yeah ♪

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[sighs]

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Yeah.

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I don't understand why so many people
do not embrace age.

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[♪ gentle piano music playing]

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I've always been attracted
by wrinkles, you know?

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Age... age means living.

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You shouldn't say how old you are.

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You should say, "How long have you lived?"

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♪♪

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If you take all your wrinkles away,

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you know,
the map of your life is different.

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I don't really want to erase
anything from my life.

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Alright.

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♪♪

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Okay, I'm gonna get dressed now.

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I've had a full life.

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I mean, I'm 76, I should be 300.

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-[director] Okay.
-[crew member] Rolling, rolling.

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[director] You know, Diane,
you've led a life

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where you have talked about

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sort of the adventures you've gone on

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and then you've talked about
the men you've been with.

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You haven't hidden behind
a sort of persona

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that a lot of successful women
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Why?

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Well, I mean, I could ask you
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I mean, why do you have to hide?

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Why? Why?

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[director]
Society makes you think about--

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Well, no, socie-- No, I, I--
Why do you have to hide?

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What my mother taught me is
take responsibility of yourself.

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And so, I've taken the responsibility
of all the things I've done.

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The only place to find your strength

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is by being true to yourself.

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That's your only shelter.

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I think what defines me the most, really,

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is the moment I was born.

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[crowd cheering]

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[♪ light music playing]

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And you have to go back
to the end of the war in Brussels.

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There was this young woman
who had nothing but bone,

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who was 22 years old in a desert of ashes.

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Eighteen months before I was born,
my mother was in Auschwitz.

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♪♪

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[Lily Halfin] You know,
I was in the concentration camp

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and I was very skinny and sick.

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When I come back, I was only 44 pounds.

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[Diane] She survived the death camp.

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Her parents could not believe
that she was there alive.

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And her mother fed her like a little bird,

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every five minutes, a little bit food.

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And within six months,
she had gained her, her normal weight.

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Her fiancé, my father,
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They planned to get married
and the doctor said,

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"Yes, you can get married,
but you cannot have a child."

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[Lily] The doctor said to my husband,

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"Monsieur, it's very dangerous

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"if, if she... your wife has a baby,

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"um, because she's not in, uh,

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in a possibility to have a child."

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[Diane] The doctor said,
"You, the mother, will not survive it

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and your child will not be normal."

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And sure enough,
I was born nine months later.

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And in a sense, I was not normal.

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♪♪

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[Lily] God send me Diane.

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It was a present.

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[Diane] Just the fact
that I was born was a victory.

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She used to say, "God saved me
so that I can give you life.

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"By giving you life,
you gave me my life back.

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You are my torch of freedom."

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[♪ soft symphonic music playing]

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I usually don't come back to Brussels.

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I always feel sad in Brussels somehow.

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Although I really love the fact that,

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you know, I was born here, I'm Belgian.

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Every time I come back,
I feel small again.

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You know, my mother was very tough
when I was a little girl.

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She wanted me to be independent
no matter what.

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She didn't want me to be a victim,

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never want me to be afraid,
and she always pushed me.

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I don't think my mother
ever said, be careful.

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If I was afraid of the dark,

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she would lock me in a dark closet.

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Today she could go to jail for it.

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But she was right,
because once you're in a dark closet,

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it doesn't stay dark.

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And even if it did stay dark, why fear?

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She wanted to equip me

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in case I ever needed
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♪♪

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My mother was traumatized.

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So even though
she didn't really show it to me,

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you know, there was always
behind closed door,

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I knew that, you know,
she went back to a dark place.

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When I would come back from school,

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my first thing is,
"How is my mother?" You know?

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My mother was my concern.

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I was never a child,
I was always a grown-up.

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I had my mother's concern first, for sure.

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Even as a little girl,
I wanted to get out.

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It was always independence
that excited me.

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And I remember feeling
so different than everyone else.

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It's all got to do with my hair.

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Everybody in Belgium
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and I have black curly hair.

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It's as stupid as that.

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I just had to run away
to make my own life.

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And besides, my mother left before I did.

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One day, I came back from school

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and, uh...

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there was a blue envelope

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addressed to my mother in the hallway.

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And I don't know what happened to me.

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And I opened the envelope.

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It was a letter addressed
to my mother from a man.

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That man turned out to be, later...

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her lover, and she ended up
leaving my father for that man.

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It was a divorce, like a war.

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I mean, it's... it was a big fight.

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[Diane] I never questioned my mother,

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I never judged her at all.

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And... I don't know why.

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I mean, I didn't think she didn't love me,

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but she just had... she just had to go.

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[♪ peppy saxophone music playing]

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I mean, I just saw it
as freedom for everybody.

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After the divorce,

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my mother put me
in boarding school in Switzerland.

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For me, being in boarding school
was the best thing ever.

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♪♪

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There was the excitement
of being on my own

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and anything can happen.

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The first year at boarding school,

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I fell in love and I had
my first love with a boy.

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He was Persian.

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♪♪

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And then after that,
I fell in love with a girl.

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And it was passion, I loved her.

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And, uh, I kind of got expelled
for that reason.

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Her sexual fluidity is, is sexy.

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[♪ Italian pop song playing]

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[Anh Duong]
Diane is not afraid of her desires.

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In our society, you know, women tend
to be afraid of wanting too much,

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but Diane is not afraid
to own her sexuality.

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[Diane] Very often
you are in love with love.

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And when I was 18 I met Egon.

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[♪ "Tuca Tuca" by Raffaella Carrà playing]

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♪ Ah-ah, mi piaci ♪

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He was a prince.

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♪ Ah-ah-ah ♪

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His mother was Agnelli,

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the big car company in Europe.

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[Olivier Gelbsmann]
Egon was very handsome

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and the kindest man that I've ever met.

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He liked to have fun, obviously,

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and also liked Diane very much,

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and he like me also.

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[chuckles]

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[♪ "Tuca Tuca" continues]

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[Diane] Egon is the young prince

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that everybody wants to go out with.

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And so, I was clearly invited with him.

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So that was my first kind of
touch with the jet set.

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He initiated me to that life.

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[Gioia Diliberto] Diane became part of
a group of young people

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who were wealthy, and beautiful,

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and were following
the social seasons around Europe.

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For a middle-class Jewish girl,

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it was not a natural entrée into the world

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of these moneyed aristocrats,

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but she managed to infiltrate them.

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[Diane] Egon told me he loved me
and I loved him.

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He believed in me before anyone else.

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[♪ "Tuca Tuca" continues]

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And when I was
an awkward 18-year-old girl,

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he was instrumental
in giving me confidence.

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But, you know, we were so young.

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So he had this life, I had my life.

248
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Egon went to America,

249
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and I went to Paris.

250
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[♪ mellow French song playing]

251
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♪♪

252
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I met this guy, Albert Koski,
he was a photographer's agent.

253
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He had a house in the 16th arrondissement,

254
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that was the center
for models and photographers.

255
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So I started to work for him.

256
00:14:52,476 --> 00:14:56,980
My job was answering the phone
and said that he wasn't there

257
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either to photographers he hadn't paid,

258
00:14:59,942 --> 00:15:03,278
or to girls that he had
been with the night before

259
00:15:03,362 --> 00:15:04,571
and he didn't wanna see.

260
00:15:05,697 --> 00:15:10,410
And, of course, as a young girl
working with all these men,

261
00:15:10,494 --> 00:15:14,498
this one tried to, you know,
lock you in a room.

262
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It's just part of life,
you just kick them off, you know?

263
00:15:19,711 --> 00:15:22,673
[director] Was there ever a time
that made you uncomfortable?

264
00:15:22,756 --> 00:15:24,299
No. No, no.

265
00:15:24,383 --> 00:15:26,260
I cannot say that...

266
00:15:27,719 --> 00:15:31,265
anyone has done anything
that made me uncomfortable.

267
00:15:31,348 --> 00:15:35,561
I would never give anyone
that much credit.

268
00:15:38,730 --> 00:15:40,107
[chuckles]

269
00:15:42,901 --> 00:15:47,614
On my 20th birthday,
Egon invited me to Cortina.

270
00:15:49,199 --> 00:15:52,578
And that's where I met Angelo Ferretti.

271
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Ferretti had a printing plant
in Como, Italy.

272
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He would make scarves
for Gucci, Ferragamo,

273
00:16:02,379 --> 00:16:05,132
all of the big... Valentino, whatever.

274
00:16:05,215 --> 00:16:07,801
And he said to me, "You should come

275
00:16:07,885 --> 00:16:10,429
and see where they make fashion."

276
00:16:11,763 --> 00:16:15,726
Ferretti also wanted very much
to get me in his bed,

277
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but I didn't.

278
00:16:17,603 --> 00:16:23,066
Anyway, it just so happened
that I was there at that time,

279
00:16:23,150 --> 00:16:25,319
and he had the idea of making

280
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printed T-shirts out of jersey.

281
00:16:28,739 --> 00:16:32,159
Then I thought,
"Oh, there's something cute there.

282
00:16:32,242 --> 00:16:35,204
And I love the idea
of these T-shirt dresses."

283
00:16:35,287 --> 00:16:39,208
So I started to stay late, you know,
with a pattern maker

284
00:16:39,291 --> 00:16:41,668
and make a few samples here and there.

285
00:16:42,544 --> 00:16:45,881
I was inspired by the little wrap top

286
00:16:45,964 --> 00:16:49,009
that the ballerinas used to wear.

287
00:16:49,718 --> 00:16:51,970
So that was the inspiration.

288
00:16:52,054 --> 00:16:56,808
So, first, it was a wrap top
with a matching skirt.

289
00:16:57,226 --> 00:17:01,605
You know, it wasn't like,
"Ooh, I wanna be a fashion designer."

290
00:17:01,980 --> 00:17:05,442
No. I just thought,
"Oh, I can make some samples

291
00:17:05,526 --> 00:17:06,985
that I will try to sell."

292
00:17:07,069 --> 00:17:08,612
[birds chirping]

293
00:17:12,115 --> 00:17:15,702
-So that's the very first... top.
-[assistant] That's the very first one.

294
00:17:16,453 --> 00:17:18,539
-[assistant] Top, skirt.
-And, and skirt.

295
00:17:19,081 --> 00:17:20,207
It came in the leopard

296
00:17:20,290 --> 00:17:22,584
and then in some other prints,
including this one.

297
00:17:22,668 --> 00:17:25,879
And so this was the first idea...

298
00:17:26,129 --> 00:17:28,465
-Mm-hmm.
-...that took Diane to the wrap dress?

299
00:17:28,549 --> 00:17:30,175
-[assistant] Exactly.
-[Nicolas Lor] Exactly.

300
00:17:30,717 --> 00:17:35,097
[Diane] I got a call from a
young fashion curator in Brussels.

301
00:17:35,180 --> 00:17:40,310
He wanted to do an exhibition
on me and my dresses.

302
00:17:40,394 --> 00:17:41,520
[speaking Italian]

303
00:17:41,603 --> 00:17:44,606
I mean, it would've been
incredibly pretentious...

304
00:17:44,690 --> 00:17:46,984
-[chuckles]
-...that I went into fashion

305
00:17:47,067 --> 00:17:50,404
because I wanted to create
the uniform for freedom.

306
00:17:50,487 --> 00:17:51,488
[Nicolas] Mm.

307
00:17:51,572 --> 00:17:54,616
I mean, that would've been ridiculous.

308
00:17:54,950 --> 00:17:58,287
I don't think that I had
a vocation for fashion.

309
00:17:58,370 --> 00:18:02,082
-Mm-hmm.
-I had a vocation to be a woman in charge,

310
00:18:02,165 --> 00:18:05,127
to be a free woman, that was my vocation.

311
00:18:05,210 --> 00:18:08,839
-[Nicolas] Anything could be--
-Fashion became a, a way to do it.

312
00:18:09,089 --> 00:18:11,550
[♪ pensive music playing]

313
00:18:14,261 --> 00:18:16,597
The last thing I was thinking about
is getting married.

314
00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:17,931
I was so young.

315
00:18:18,015 --> 00:18:20,392
But then Egon gave me a ring,

316
00:18:20,976 --> 00:18:25,147
meaning that, you know,
we would get married one day.

317
00:18:25,772 --> 00:18:30,819
I continued to work,
and then one day I fainted.

318
00:18:31,403 --> 00:18:33,071
People were looking at me and she said,

319
00:18:33,155 --> 00:18:34,781
"She's dead, she's dead."

320
00:18:34,865 --> 00:18:37,159
And I said, "No, I'm not dead."

321
00:18:37,242 --> 00:18:40,537
And I was not dead,
but actually I was pregnant.

322
00:18:40,621 --> 00:18:42,706
♪♪

323
00:18:42,789 --> 00:18:44,124
I was 22.

324
00:18:47,336 --> 00:18:49,463
And I could not believe it.

325
00:18:49,546 --> 00:18:53,008
I said, "This is terrible,
this is not possible.

326
00:18:53,091 --> 00:18:55,469
"I cannot get married pregnant.

327
00:18:55,552 --> 00:18:59,306
"I mean, everyone is gonna think
that I did it on purpose.

328
00:18:59,765 --> 00:19:01,975
"This little Jewish girl
marrying a prince,

329
00:19:02,059 --> 00:19:05,437
there's no way, no way,
I can't have the child."

330
00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:09,107
And so I went back
to Geneva to see my mother.

331
00:19:10,150 --> 00:19:13,153
And I also went to see a doctor
to see, you know...

332
00:19:13,695 --> 00:19:17,407
And my mother said,
"Listen, he gave you a ring

333
00:19:17,491 --> 00:19:22,162
"and you talked about
getting married one day.

334
00:19:22,246 --> 00:19:25,624
So whatever decision you make,
you have to do together."

335
00:19:27,668 --> 00:19:28,669
Ah!

336
00:19:28,752 --> 00:19:33,090
And so it took me hours and hours
to write a telegram

337
00:19:34,091 --> 00:19:38,303
to tell him that it was okay,
I can handle everything.

338
00:19:38,679 --> 00:19:41,515
And he sent me a telegram back saying,

339
00:19:42,099 --> 00:19:45,477
"Organized wedding, mid-July, Paris."

340
00:19:45,853 --> 00:19:49,064
[♪ soft piano music playing]

341
00:19:53,443 --> 00:19:57,698
Instead of hiding that I was pregnant,
you know, I made a point.

342
00:19:59,032 --> 00:20:01,785
I'm pregnant, so I can't be
completely in white.

343
00:20:01,869 --> 00:20:03,871
♪♪

344
00:20:07,416 --> 00:20:10,502
So I had a petticoat of all colors

345
00:20:10,586 --> 00:20:12,754
and a belt which was all colors,

346
00:20:12,838 --> 00:20:17,467
ribbon and a hat with all colored flowers.

347
00:20:19,011 --> 00:20:20,470
[director] A Jewish girl marrying--

348
00:20:20,554 --> 00:20:22,431
A prince, a German prince.

349
00:20:22,514 --> 00:20:24,474
-[director] A German prince.
-Yes.

350
00:20:24,808 --> 00:20:25,976
That's a big deal.

351
00:20:28,645 --> 00:20:32,983
On my side, you could say
that my mother could have minded.

352
00:20:34,026 --> 00:20:36,570
She didn't... she loved Egon from day one.

353
00:20:36,653 --> 00:20:40,199
[guests cheering and whooping]

354
00:20:40,282 --> 00:20:44,745
From his side, it was a little difficult

355
00:20:45,787 --> 00:20:48,540
to, ooh, to have Jewish blood.

356
00:20:48,624 --> 00:20:51,710
♪♪

357
00:20:51,793 --> 00:20:55,506
Egon's father came for the,
for the ceremony,

358
00:20:55,589 --> 00:20:57,049
but not for the reception.

359
00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:02,221
[Gioia] The night before the wedding
at the rehearsal dinner,

360
00:21:02,304 --> 00:21:04,932
he commented to a friend of Diane's,

361
00:21:05,015 --> 00:21:08,685
"I don't know why Egon is marrying
this dark little Jewish girl."

362
00:21:09,770 --> 00:21:13,148
He did used to call me
and my brother little Jews

363
00:21:13,232 --> 00:21:15,317
in front of Lily.

364
00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:17,819
I didn't experience it as anti-Semitic

365
00:21:17,903 --> 00:21:20,197
because I was like two years old
or three years old.

366
00:21:20,656 --> 00:21:21,782
But in hindsight,

367
00:21:21,865 --> 00:21:24,660
I think it may have been
a little bit aggressive

368
00:21:24,743 --> 00:21:26,203
towards my grandmother.

369
00:21:27,246 --> 00:21:29,498
[Tassilo von Furstenberg]
I was named after my great-grandfather

370
00:21:29,581 --> 00:21:31,291
who was an Austrian aristocrat.

371
00:21:31,375 --> 00:21:35,629
And my great-- my great-grandmother
was a Holocaust survivor,

372
00:21:35,712 --> 00:21:37,756
so it's always been talked about.

373
00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,717
It's about my family
that we've had this dynamic.

374
00:21:42,094 --> 00:21:44,221
We've had both the suffering
and the oppressing.

375
00:21:44,805 --> 00:21:47,266
♪♪

376
00:21:48,809 --> 00:21:52,896
[Diane] My roots are Jewish,
my mother paid for that.

377
00:21:52,980 --> 00:21:54,439
She paid for that,

378
00:21:54,857 --> 00:21:56,650
but I was her revenge.

379
00:21:56,733 --> 00:21:57,985
[guests applauding]

380
00:22:00,487 --> 00:22:02,447
[♪ piano music playing]

381
00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:10,747
When I went to the Furstenberg Castle,

382
00:22:10,831 --> 00:22:13,584
I thought, "Maybe they,
they will poison me."

383
00:22:14,626 --> 00:22:18,130
It was after lunch,
and there may have been the remark

384
00:22:18,213 --> 00:22:21,466
that annoyed me, and I went on a walk.

385
00:22:22,009 --> 00:22:24,178
But I don't remember what annoyed me.

386
00:22:24,261 --> 00:22:27,723
What I remember
is the conversation that I had

387
00:22:27,806 --> 00:22:29,474
with my unborn child.

388
00:22:29,892 --> 00:22:31,685
"We will show them.

389
00:22:32,269 --> 00:22:34,021
"We will show them.

390
00:22:34,980 --> 00:22:36,273
We will show them."

391
00:22:39,484 --> 00:22:41,376
♪♪

392
00:22:43,238 --> 00:22:46,116
Egon was already in New York.

393
00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:47,868
I wanted to take a boat

394
00:22:47,951 --> 00:22:49,411
to come to America.

395
00:22:49,494 --> 00:22:51,413
[ship horn blaring]

396
00:22:51,496 --> 00:22:53,874
I had this idea, you come to America,

397
00:22:53,957 --> 00:22:55,876
the boat, the Statue of Liberty.

398
00:22:55,959 --> 00:22:57,711
So I didn't wanna fly

399
00:22:58,212 --> 00:23:00,714
because I wanted to think about my future.

400
00:23:00,797 --> 00:23:04,051
And then I had my little suitcase
full of samples.

401
00:23:04,134 --> 00:23:07,221
[♪ "New York City Rhythm"
by Barry Manilow playing]

402
00:23:09,097 --> 00:23:12,559
♪ City rhythm, ooh ♪

403
00:23:12,643 --> 00:23:14,436
♪ City rhythm ♪

404
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:18,565
When I arrived, New York is buzzing.

405
00:23:20,067 --> 00:23:25,030
There were so many artists,
there was Hair on Broadway.

406
00:23:26,073 --> 00:23:27,741
Nudity on Broadway,

407
00:23:27,824 --> 00:23:31,703
I mean, it was just,
oh, my God, talk about freedom.

408
00:23:31,787 --> 00:23:34,039
[engines roaring]

409
00:23:35,999 --> 00:23:38,460
It was the women's liberation,

410
00:23:38,544 --> 00:23:41,296
and Gloria Steinem, and all of that.

411
00:23:43,465 --> 00:23:46,218
And for me, it was like
being in American movie.

412
00:23:46,301 --> 00:23:52,057
♪ It's the New York City rhythm
runnin' through my life ♪

413
00:23:52,140 --> 00:23:54,726
We go out every night.

414
00:23:55,477 --> 00:23:58,188
I mean, we'd go to cocktail parties,

415
00:23:58,272 --> 00:24:01,066
we'd go to dinner parties,
we go to openings,

416
00:24:01,149 --> 00:24:03,193
we'd go to fashion shows.

417
00:24:05,112 --> 00:24:07,239
There were all these young designers,

418
00:24:08,574 --> 00:24:11,869
Giorgio di Sant' Angelo
who was making bodysuits,

419
00:24:13,203 --> 00:24:16,582
Halston who was making fluid silhouettes.

420
00:24:17,583 --> 00:24:21,420
Stephen Burrows, who made
very body-conscience clothes.

421
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:26,842
You could find inexpensive things
that were stylish

422
00:24:26,925 --> 00:24:29,636
because America was a much bigger country.

423
00:24:31,471 --> 00:24:36,393
So Egon, the young prince,
he knew everybody.

424
00:24:37,311 --> 00:24:41,565
He arranged an appointment
for me to show my dresses

425
00:24:41,648 --> 00:24:42,900
to Diana Vreeland.

426
00:24:45,444 --> 00:24:50,240
Now, Diana Vreeland
is the most intimidating person

427
00:24:50,324 --> 00:24:52,034
I have ever met in my life.

428
00:24:52,951 --> 00:24:56,413
So I, I go in with a big huge suitcase

429
00:24:57,039 --> 00:24:59,124
and I start hanging the clothes.

430
00:25:00,542 --> 00:25:05,547
All of a sudden she walks in
with red nail polish,

431
00:25:05,631 --> 00:25:08,759
and red, red lipstick,
and black, black hair.

432
00:25:09,635 --> 00:25:13,013
And she comes to me
and she pushes my chin up.

433
00:25:13,096 --> 00:25:14,806
And she said, "Chin up, up!"

434
00:25:14,890 --> 00:25:17,226
And I thought, "Ooh, my God, where am I?"

435
00:25:18,977 --> 00:25:21,563
Two girls were modeling for her.

436
00:25:22,272 --> 00:25:24,608
They start to put the clothes on,

437
00:25:25,067 --> 00:25:28,278
and she looks at me
and she said, "Aah, ooh, rah, rah."

438
00:25:28,362 --> 00:25:33,575
Before I know, I am pushed out the door,
packing my luggage,

439
00:25:33,659 --> 00:25:36,537
not knowing what has
happened to me at all.

440
00:25:37,621 --> 00:25:40,415
But she had an assistant who said,

441
00:25:40,958 --> 00:25:43,418
"I think she's gonna help you,
I think she liked it."

442
00:25:44,002 --> 00:25:46,129
Before I knew I had a company.

443
00:25:47,631 --> 00:25:49,049
She didn't come in with an idea.

444
00:25:49,132 --> 00:25:51,343
She came in with a package,
with a product.

445
00:25:51,426 --> 00:25:53,846
She wasn't just a person with a dream.

446
00:25:54,513 --> 00:25:59,142
She came in with a whole thing
digested, fixed, arranged.

447
00:26:00,853 --> 00:26:05,315
[Diane] I hired this salesman
and he was a great salesman.

448
00:26:05,691 --> 00:26:09,570
And he pushed me, he sent me on the road.

449
00:26:11,530 --> 00:26:15,284
I would go to Pittsburgh,
I would go to Oklahoma.

450
00:26:15,367 --> 00:26:17,202
I would go all over.

451
00:26:18,662 --> 00:26:21,123
I would go back and forth to the factory,

452
00:26:21,206 --> 00:26:23,208
but my orders were so small.

453
00:26:23,292 --> 00:26:25,961
And I would go to Ferretti, and he said,

454
00:26:26,044 --> 00:26:28,422
"I can't make these small orders."

455
00:26:28,505 --> 00:26:31,717
But I would cry and,
"Please," and "Trust me."

456
00:26:33,218 --> 00:26:35,721
I work out of my dining room.

457
00:26:36,346 --> 00:26:39,766
I sell them, I do the invoice,
I do everything.

458
00:26:41,018 --> 00:26:43,270
[Fran Lebowitz] It must have been
incredibly hard for her.

459
00:26:43,729 --> 00:26:46,773
Women in the fashion business weren't
designers, mostly, they were models.

460
00:26:46,857 --> 00:26:49,026
The fashion business in New York,

461
00:26:49,109 --> 00:26:51,862
it was very hard business
and a, and a rough business.

462
00:26:51,945 --> 00:26:53,363
[car horns honking]

463
00:26:53,989 --> 00:26:57,117
[director] And, you didn't know
anything about running a business?

464
00:26:57,701 --> 00:27:00,204
I didn't... I-I still don't. [chuckles]

465
00:27:00,287 --> 00:27:03,707
I, I, uh, I didn't know anything,
I didn't know anything.

466
00:27:04,166 --> 00:27:07,711
I was a new immigrant in America,

467
00:27:07,794 --> 00:27:10,464
in a business that I knew nothing about,

468
00:27:10,547 --> 00:27:13,258
in a country that I knew
very little about.

469
00:27:13,342 --> 00:27:16,136
Everything was new and I was inventing it.

470
00:27:16,345 --> 00:27:18,347
[♪ light, cheerful music playing]

471
00:27:19,890 --> 00:27:22,643
And I was also a new mother.

472
00:27:24,811 --> 00:27:27,940
Alex was born in '70 January.

473
00:27:28,023 --> 00:27:29,191
♪♪

474
00:27:35,656 --> 00:27:39,034
Tatiana was born in February '71.

475
00:27:39,493 --> 00:27:44,414
And I always compare her
to the drop of oil in the vinaigrette.

476
00:27:44,665 --> 00:27:47,668
She made it happen, she made us a family.

477
00:27:48,001 --> 00:27:49,837
[director] When did you
realize your mother

478
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,047
was not like every other mother?

479
00:27:52,130 --> 00:27:56,218
Well, in a weird way,
she is like any other mom.

480
00:27:56,635 --> 00:27:59,972
I mean, she certainly lived her best life,

481
00:28:00,055 --> 00:28:05,811
but that was secondary to, you know,
the family and, and love, and...

482
00:28:06,436 --> 00:28:09,231
So I don't think
that it was so much different

483
00:28:09,314 --> 00:28:12,943
than any other, sort of... Jewish mom.

484
00:28:15,988 --> 00:28:18,323
[Tatiana von Furstenberg] My mother
and father were both very young

485
00:28:18,407 --> 00:28:19,658
when they had my brother and I.

486
00:28:20,409 --> 00:28:25,664
So they relied very heavily
on the whole village

487
00:28:25,747 --> 00:28:26,915
to raise us.

488
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,712
My grandmother, Lily,
she took care of me like a mother would.

489
00:28:32,504 --> 00:28:36,633
She covered my mom so that my mother
could be free to do her thing.

490
00:28:38,343 --> 00:28:40,762
My mom was, like,
doing so much in her life

491
00:28:40,846 --> 00:28:43,640
between working and going out
and being a young person.

492
00:28:43,724 --> 00:28:46,226
So my grandmother was more of
just, like, a steady presence.

493
00:28:49,438 --> 00:28:52,649
Did my parents actually
have time for family time?

494
00:28:53,275 --> 00:28:55,736
I wouldn't say they had
the longest attention span.

495
00:28:57,946 --> 00:29:01,700
I don't know if you wanna use
the word "neglected" or "free,"

496
00:29:01,783 --> 00:29:05,245
but we were, like, not infantilized
or cared for as children.

497
00:29:05,329 --> 00:29:08,040
Like, we cooked for ourselves,

498
00:29:08,123 --> 00:29:11,126
we traveled alone at a very young age.

499
00:29:13,295 --> 00:29:16,423
[Diane] Did I have enough time for them?
Probably not.

500
00:29:16,507 --> 00:29:19,134
But, I-- I was...

501
00:29:19,218 --> 00:29:23,972
I mean, they were always
in-inside me, you know?

502
00:29:24,056 --> 00:29:27,851
They were always inside me
from the moment they were born.

503
00:29:31,063 --> 00:29:32,397
[host] All ready?

504
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:37,778
[Diane] And then I had a husband
who was hard to follow.

505
00:29:38,237 --> 00:29:39,738
[host] Here we are,
Prince von Furstenberg

506
00:29:39,821 --> 00:29:42,699
and what brings you out
to another star-studded celebrity night?

507
00:29:43,325 --> 00:29:44,701
Just came back, I can't answer you.

508
00:29:44,785 --> 00:29:46,870
-[host] Where have you been?
-I was in Italy.

509
00:29:46,954 --> 00:29:48,455
[host] Okay, alright, thank you.

510
00:29:48,539 --> 00:29:50,916
Prince von Furstenberg,
one of the other glittering stars

511
00:29:50,999 --> 00:29:52,543
that are making this night
at the Rainbow Room,

512
00:29:52,626 --> 00:29:54,419
one to remember. [clicks tongue]

513
00:29:55,045 --> 00:29:59,216
[Bob Colacello] Egon and Diane,
they were like this "it" couple.

514
00:30:00,717 --> 00:30:05,055
They exuded this glamour
and this sexiness, this sensuality.

515
00:30:05,138 --> 00:30:07,683
It's more like
they strutted into the room.

516
00:30:07,766 --> 00:30:11,520
They announced themselves
just by their body movements.

517
00:30:12,771 --> 00:30:16,358
And Egon was a very sexy,
somewhat decadent guy.

518
00:30:17,484 --> 00:30:20,779
He was very outgoing, very seductive.

519
00:30:21,488 --> 00:30:24,658
He sort of had the attitude
that everybody wanted to sleep with him...

520
00:30:24,741 --> 00:30:27,119
[laughs] ...male, female, and whatever.

521
00:30:28,829 --> 00:30:32,958
He just exuded this kind of
romantic confidence, let's say.

522
00:30:34,668 --> 00:30:38,088
Egon was this very attractive husband

523
00:30:38,172 --> 00:30:40,799
who was very promiscuous

524
00:30:40,883 --> 00:30:45,304
at a time that it was
very hip to be promiscuous.

525
00:30:45,929 --> 00:30:48,307
Egon to me, would be the perfect husband.

526
00:30:48,390 --> 00:30:50,058
I loved him.

527
00:30:51,059 --> 00:30:52,686
He was known for being decadent

528
00:30:52,769 --> 00:30:55,606
in an environment
where you had to be outstanding

529
00:30:55,689 --> 00:30:57,107
in that field to be known for that.

530
00:30:58,025 --> 00:31:00,611
[Gigi Williams] If I could find a gay man
to fall in love with,

531
00:31:01,028 --> 00:31:04,907
who was that powerful
and allowed me to be who I am,

532
00:31:04,990 --> 00:31:06,491
boy, I'd fall for him in a second.

533
00:31:07,868 --> 00:31:10,913
[Diane] It was a lot of going out,
a lot of noise,

534
00:31:10,996 --> 00:31:12,372
and a lot of parties.

535
00:31:13,665 --> 00:31:16,376
I don't know how I did it,
I don't know how I did it.

536
00:31:16,460 --> 00:31:18,962
Two small children, I mean, really,

537
00:31:19,046 --> 00:31:21,298
I mean, my children are 13 months apart.

538
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:25,010
And then this one thing that changed it.

539
00:31:26,428 --> 00:31:31,558
New York Magazine
was a very, very hot magazine.

540
00:31:31,642 --> 00:31:36,730
The editor-in-chief commissions
a 10-page cover story

541
00:31:36,813 --> 00:31:38,774
on me and Egon.

542
00:31:40,150 --> 00:31:42,569
[Linda] And I went up to their apartment.

543
00:31:42,653 --> 00:31:46,406
They were very, very nice, very charming.

544
00:31:46,490 --> 00:31:49,535
Diane was so exotic.

545
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:54,665
She was then saying all the things
that she would say now,

546
00:31:54,748 --> 00:31:56,917
a woman needing independence

547
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,962
and, uh, wanting to make her own way,

548
00:32:00,045 --> 00:32:01,672
so I liked her a lot.

549
00:32:02,130 --> 00:32:04,132
But Prince Egon,

550
00:32:05,300 --> 00:32:07,386
and I think the word
"prince" has to come in here

551
00:32:07,469 --> 00:32:12,349
because he was arrogant,
he was condescending,

552
00:32:12,766 --> 00:32:16,144
he was filled with entitlement.

553
00:32:16,228 --> 00:32:18,689
Just wanted to go whack. [laughs]

554
00:32:21,441 --> 00:32:23,110
[director]
Can I quote from the article?

555
00:32:24,611 --> 00:32:27,072
Yeah, you can do whatever you want,
you're the director.

556
00:32:27,155 --> 00:32:28,657
You absolutely want this angle?

557
00:32:28,740 --> 00:32:29,992
[cameraman] Uh, many, many angles.

558
00:32:30,075 --> 00:32:31,410
[laughs]

559
00:32:32,411 --> 00:32:35,330
[director] "Egon admits that
were he to meet an attractive man,

560
00:32:35,414 --> 00:32:37,207
"he would not loath to experiment,

561
00:32:37,291 --> 00:32:39,042
but Diane is not so sure."

562
00:32:40,210 --> 00:32:42,337
[♪ pensive music playing]

563
00:32:44,089 --> 00:32:48,135
[Diane] Egon was difficult
to be married with,

564
00:32:48,218 --> 00:32:50,345
he was so much of a flirt.

565
00:32:51,930 --> 00:32:55,934
I realize that I'm a person, not a couple,

566
00:32:56,977 --> 00:33:00,063
and therefore I can't be married anymore.

567
00:33:02,816 --> 00:33:05,986
[Gioia] I don't think
she was embarrassed by the sex at all.

568
00:33:06,612 --> 00:33:11,200
That was part of their persona
as ultra sophisticates.

569
00:33:12,034 --> 00:33:14,786
I think it was just the entire picture.

570
00:33:15,537 --> 00:33:17,456
[Linda] From New York Magazine's
point of view,

571
00:33:17,539 --> 00:33:19,333
they were Eurotrash.

572
00:33:20,542 --> 00:33:23,921
There's a line
that she went back to Europe

573
00:33:24,004 --> 00:33:27,925
and brought back
some little fluffy things to sell.

574
00:33:29,384 --> 00:33:31,720
[Gioia] Even though she was
this businesswoman,

575
00:33:31,803 --> 00:33:34,973
the only thing anybody saw
was the princess.

576
00:33:35,891 --> 00:33:40,020
[Diane] They were looking at me like this,
you know, Park Avenue princess.

577
00:33:40,437 --> 00:33:42,731
I didn't like the, necessarily that image.

578
00:33:42,814 --> 00:33:46,443
I'd rather be an Amazon on a horse.

579
00:33:49,446 --> 00:33:51,615
Divorce for me was freedom.

580
00:33:52,658 --> 00:33:55,202
I mean, the common thread in my life

581
00:33:55,285 --> 00:33:57,329
has always been freedom.

582
00:33:58,830 --> 00:34:02,084
[Tatiana] I think my parents' marriage
was not great.

583
00:34:02,167 --> 00:34:05,712
I think she had a lot of, like, feelings
that she didn't wanna put onto me

584
00:34:06,839 --> 00:34:09,424
because she'd been holding it together
for us the whole time.

585
00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:13,679
I think, you know, growing up with
a very young single mom is just like that.

586
00:34:13,762 --> 00:34:16,473
♪♪

587
00:34:16,557 --> 00:34:19,142
[Olivier] The princess story
did not last very long.

588
00:34:19,226 --> 00:34:20,269
[Olivier laughs]

589
00:34:20,352 --> 00:34:22,688
She's very practical, so, you know,

590
00:34:22,771 --> 00:34:25,607
to be a princess
meant what exactly, you know?

591
00:34:25,691 --> 00:34:28,151
And then she became
a business woman, you know?

592
00:34:28,235 --> 00:34:31,071
So, certainly became more DVF, you know?

593
00:34:31,154 --> 00:34:32,197
[chuckles]

594
00:34:33,073 --> 00:34:35,284
[Diane] I became the woman I wanted to be.

595
00:34:36,785 --> 00:34:38,579
I was in charge of my destiny.

596
00:34:38,662 --> 00:34:39,997
I was in charge of my children,

597
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:41,999
I was in charge of my life,

598
00:34:42,082 --> 00:34:43,500
I was in charge of my business.

599
00:34:43,584 --> 00:34:45,502
I was a woman in charge.

600
00:34:45,711 --> 00:34:48,630
[♪ mellow music playing]

601
00:34:53,844 --> 00:34:56,096
♪♪

602
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:03,103
[♪ music fades]

603
00:35:05,898 --> 00:35:07,900
Hi, have you found anything?

604
00:35:08,233 --> 00:35:10,027
-[assistant 1] Hmm?
-[Diane] Have you found anything?

605
00:35:10,110 --> 00:35:12,154
-[assistant 2] We found a lot.
-[assistant 1] We found a lot.

606
00:35:12,237 --> 00:35:13,697
[Diane] [clears throat] Okay.

607
00:35:13,780 --> 00:35:17,659
Alright, so, the original--

608
00:35:17,743 --> 00:35:20,704
So wh-which is the one,
is this the one they needed?

609
00:35:20,787 --> 00:35:21,788
[assistant 2] This is '70s?

610
00:35:21,872 --> 00:35:23,582
So that's one
that he chose for the '70s.

611
00:35:23,665 --> 00:35:29,087
I mean, this is, this is,
this is, this is 50 years old.

612
00:35:29,171 --> 00:35:32,466
This is a wrap dress that I love,
by the way.

613
00:35:34,176 --> 00:35:37,262
[director] Diane let's go back
to the dress, the wrap dress,

614
00:35:37,346 --> 00:35:39,556
what inspired that design?

615
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:41,433
-[helicopter blades whirring]
-[people clamoring]

616
00:35:41,517 --> 00:35:46,396
[Diane] In 1973, Nixon was in trouble.

617
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,107
[clamoring]

618
00:35:51,109 --> 00:35:55,030
I condemn any attempts
to cover up in this case,

619
00:35:55,447 --> 00:35:57,783
no matter who is involved.

620
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:03,205
[Diane] One day on television
I saw Nixon's daughter

621
00:36:03,288 --> 00:36:05,374
defending her father.

622
00:36:06,834 --> 00:36:09,628
She was wearing my little wrap top

623
00:36:10,295 --> 00:36:11,964
with a matching skirt.

624
00:36:12,047 --> 00:36:16,885
And I thought, "Oh, my God,
maybe I should turn it into a dress."

625
00:36:17,427 --> 00:36:19,972
That's when it all clicked.

626
00:36:21,598 --> 00:36:25,644
I wanted to make a little announcement
in Women's Wear Daily.

627
00:36:26,311 --> 00:36:30,649
So I hired a photographer
to take a picture of me in my dress.

628
00:36:30,732 --> 00:36:33,527
When the picture came,
I liked the picture,

629
00:36:33,610 --> 00:36:36,363
but the white cube was so big.

630
00:36:36,446 --> 00:36:39,658
So I said, "I need to write
something on the cube."

631
00:36:40,284 --> 00:36:43,704
I wrote, "Feel like a woman,
wear a dress."

632
00:36:44,454 --> 00:36:46,623
And I signed, Diane von Furstenberg.

633
00:36:46,707 --> 00:36:49,501
And that dress became...

634
00:36:50,210 --> 00:36:53,088
a, a phenomenon, a success.

635
00:36:53,172 --> 00:36:55,299
It became crazy.

636
00:36:56,091 --> 00:36:59,219
[Gioia] The wrap dress
was the go-to garment.

637
00:36:59,303 --> 00:37:01,096
Everybody I knew had one.

638
00:37:02,055 --> 00:37:06,977
It seemed to epitomize
a modern, independent,

639
00:37:07,060 --> 00:37:10,105
sexy woman who could have it all.

640
00:37:10,898 --> 00:37:13,609
[Oprah] I remember being
a young reporter,

641
00:37:13,692 --> 00:37:17,029
saving up for
a Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress.

642
00:37:17,112 --> 00:37:21,491
It was such a status symbol
to have one of those dresses.

643
00:37:22,367 --> 00:37:25,454
[Vanessa Friedman] This dress empowered
a giant swath of women

644
00:37:25,537 --> 00:37:27,122
who could actually afford to wear it.

645
00:37:27,206 --> 00:37:30,167
Which, you know, let's be honest,
is not true of most high fashion.

646
00:37:30,250 --> 00:37:33,212
Right? Like, most high fashion
kind of exists over here.

647
00:37:33,295 --> 00:37:36,048
And Diane's dress exists
in the middle of the history

648
00:37:36,131 --> 00:37:38,175
of women's rights
and women in the workforce

649
00:37:38,258 --> 00:37:42,012
and women kind of finding their own voice.

650
00:37:42,763 --> 00:37:44,181
[Gioia]
Women in the '70s were told,

651
00:37:44,264 --> 00:37:46,099
if you wanted to be taken seriously,

652
00:37:46,183 --> 00:37:48,227
you had to tamp down your sexuality.

653
00:37:48,310 --> 00:37:51,772
You had to wear a suit
that looked like a man's suit

654
00:37:51,855 --> 00:37:54,733
and you had to make yourself
as unfeminine as possible.

655
00:37:55,484 --> 00:37:59,321
Formfitting wrap dresses
were exactly opposite of that.

656
00:37:59,947 --> 00:38:01,907
[interviewee] She knows
what a woman is like.

657
00:38:01,990 --> 00:38:03,825
She knows what her dimensions are.

658
00:38:03,909 --> 00:38:06,662
You know, just nice soft dresses,
soft designs.

659
00:38:06,745 --> 00:38:10,290
I own about a half a dozen of 'em
I want you to know, and they're all fine.

660
00:38:10,707 --> 00:38:14,336
[Diane] It was an $86 dress,
that-that's the prize then.

661
00:38:14,419 --> 00:38:17,714
So it became the first dress
for so many people

662
00:38:17,798 --> 00:38:20,717
for the first job,
for the first interview,

663
00:38:20,801 --> 00:38:22,344
for the first prom.

664
00:38:22,553 --> 00:38:23,929
In no time at all,

665
00:38:24,012 --> 00:38:28,141
I was making 25,000 dresses a week.

666
00:38:28,225 --> 00:38:30,435
That's 50,000 sleeves.

667
00:38:31,353 --> 00:38:34,815
[Hillary Rodham Clinton]
It's odd to think that a single dress

668
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:37,609
could have made that kind of impact.

669
00:38:37,693 --> 00:38:39,403
But I was there and it did.

670
00:38:39,486 --> 00:38:42,906
I mean, it had a huge reverberation.

671
00:38:44,283 --> 00:38:49,454
[Diane] At the age of 28,
I was on the cover of Newsweek.

672
00:38:50,330 --> 00:38:52,082
[Fran] Newsweek went
all over the country.

673
00:38:52,165 --> 00:38:55,419
So, you know, it's very likely that,
you know, someone in Kansas or something

674
00:38:55,502 --> 00:38:58,922
sees that, she thinks, "I could wear that.

675
00:38:59,006 --> 00:39:00,465
"I could wear that,

676
00:39:00,549 --> 00:39:04,011
and also, I'm kind-- I would kinda
then be like Diane."

677
00:39:04,094 --> 00:39:06,638
Of course, that's not true,
but people believe that.

678
00:39:06,722 --> 00:39:08,682
And that is how you have a giant success.

679
00:39:08,765 --> 00:39:12,352
[camera shutter clicking]

680
00:39:15,939 --> 00:39:17,524
-[photographer] Great.
-Okay.

681
00:39:17,608 --> 00:39:18,817
[photographer] Amazing.

682
00:39:18,901 --> 00:39:19,902
[crew member] Oops.

683
00:39:19,985 --> 00:39:22,070
-[Diane] There it is. Okay.
-[photographer] Thank you very much.

684
00:39:22,154 --> 00:39:23,155
[Diane] Thank you.

685
00:39:28,452 --> 00:39:29,453
[Diane] Merci.

686
00:39:38,879 --> 00:39:40,797
[indistinct chatter]

687
00:39:54,728 --> 00:39:57,439
"You should remember
the woman, not the dress."

688
00:39:57,523 --> 00:40:00,484
[♪ peppy music playing]

689
00:40:09,993 --> 00:40:12,204
[Marc] Diane was
one of the first influencers.

690
00:40:13,497 --> 00:40:17,376
An influencer today,
whether they're doing makeup tutorials

691
00:40:17,459 --> 00:40:19,169
or whatever it is that they're doing,

692
00:40:19,253 --> 00:40:23,590
it's like their audience
is tuning in to them,

693
00:40:23,674 --> 00:40:26,468
and buying what they use,

694
00:40:26,552 --> 00:40:28,220
and what they say is good, you know?

695
00:40:28,303 --> 00:40:30,597
Like, so absolutely she did that first.

696
00:40:30,681 --> 00:40:32,182
[interviewer] What does glamorous mean?

697
00:40:32,266 --> 00:40:33,892
-What does glamorous mean?
-[interviewer] Yeah.

698
00:40:33,976 --> 00:40:37,062
Uh... Well, I guess shiny, no?

699
00:40:37,145 --> 00:40:40,399
Isn't that glamour,
very sparkly and shiny?

700
00:40:40,482 --> 00:40:43,318
[Gigi] Diane and I would put out
a notice at shopping malls,

701
00:40:44,236 --> 00:40:46,321
and all these women would show up.

702
00:40:46,405 --> 00:40:48,907
Hello, it's very nice to be here

703
00:40:48,991 --> 00:40:50,993
and I'm delighted
to have such a big crowd.

704
00:40:51,076 --> 00:40:54,621
I'm delighted to have
such a young crowd too.

705
00:40:54,705 --> 00:40:56,206
[crowd applauding]

706
00:40:56,290 --> 00:40:58,333
And we would be doing makeup

707
00:40:58,417 --> 00:41:01,712
and talking to a whole crowd of women,

708
00:41:02,212 --> 00:41:06,175
and our main focus was feminism.

709
00:41:07,634 --> 00:41:09,136
You know, we'd start out with,

710
00:41:09,219 --> 00:41:11,555
first of all, you should
only spend five minutes

711
00:41:11,638 --> 00:41:13,640
to seven minutes doing your makeup

712
00:41:13,724 --> 00:41:15,809
because you have other things to do.

713
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:20,022
Basically, it was like,
don't depend on the man in your life

714
00:41:20,105 --> 00:41:23,400
because he's not gonna be around,
so just take care of yourself.

715
00:41:24,735 --> 00:41:28,572
In 1976, as a woman,
you couldn't have a credit card

716
00:41:28,655 --> 00:41:31,325
or a checking account without a husband

717
00:41:31,408 --> 00:41:34,786
or a father co-signing for you,
and that's where we were.

718
00:41:36,079 --> 00:41:40,876
[Oprah] Being able to organize
and orchestrate a business for yourself

719
00:41:40,959 --> 00:41:44,004
was such an extraordinary accomplishment,

720
00:41:44,087 --> 00:41:48,425
at a time when
women were not even considered

721
00:41:48,509 --> 00:41:50,052
second-class citizens.

722
00:41:50,135 --> 00:41:52,262
It's just, like, we didn't even matter.

723
00:41:52,346 --> 00:41:55,557
We had no value in the workplace.

724
00:41:55,933 --> 00:41:58,393
[Regis Philbin] Alright, now we are
joined by Diane von Furstenberg,

725
00:41:59,144 --> 00:42:00,479
who has a tremendous spread

726
00:42:00,562 --> 00:42:02,397
-in the new Vogue magazine.
-Yes.

727
00:42:02,481 --> 00:42:04,650
You have changed yourself, haven't you?

728
00:42:04,733 --> 00:42:06,860
-Well, I hope I keep on growing.
-You look a little different.

729
00:42:06,944 --> 00:42:08,946
-Yes, you look different, Diane.
-I hope I keep on growing.

730
00:42:09,029 --> 00:42:11,114
-Well, I am getting old.
-Well, no, no, no, no, no.

731
00:42:11,198 --> 00:42:13,075
I mean, you've changed
your whole hairstyle.

732
00:42:13,158 --> 00:42:14,576
-[Cyndy Garvey] Sure.
-Well, uh,

733
00:42:14,660 --> 00:42:16,078
you know, you keep on growing

734
00:42:16,161 --> 00:42:19,581
and you try to get
a little better and, um, you know...

735
00:42:19,665 --> 00:42:21,041
And I have my moods too.

736
00:42:21,124 --> 00:42:22,543
What kind of mood are you in right now?

737
00:42:22,626 --> 00:42:25,128
Well, now I'm trying
to be real efficient,

738
00:42:25,212 --> 00:42:26,964
and convincing, and nice, and--

739
00:42:27,047 --> 00:42:28,382
With, uh, stockings like those?

740
00:42:28,465 --> 00:42:29,716
[audience laughs]

741
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:31,510
[Nathan] I think all women
are treated differently

742
00:42:31,593 --> 00:42:32,594
because they're women.

743
00:42:32,678 --> 00:42:34,388
You are a young woman,
you are dismissed,

744
00:42:34,471 --> 00:42:36,765
you're a young pretty woman,
you are dismissed, you know?

745
00:42:36,849 --> 00:42:38,433
You've married someone,
you're dismissed

746
00:42:38,517 --> 00:42:39,601
because you're just a wife.

747
00:42:39,685 --> 00:42:42,104
You're... you know--
And now, when you're Diane's age,

748
00:42:42,187 --> 00:42:43,438
you're just an old woman, you know?

749
00:42:43,522 --> 00:42:45,065
Like, it's always dismissive.

750
00:42:46,108 --> 00:42:48,485
[Gioia] She had to be incredibly tough

751
00:42:48,569 --> 00:42:52,364
and relentless
in pushing for what she wanted,

752
00:42:52,447 --> 00:42:53,866
in the face of resistance

753
00:42:53,949 --> 00:42:57,703
from men who wanted to deny her
entrée into their world.

754
00:42:59,746 --> 00:43:03,292
The way she presented herself
as this very sexy,

755
00:43:03,375 --> 00:43:08,088
glamorous woman in fishnets and stilettos
was exactly opposite

756
00:43:08,172 --> 00:43:11,341
how a woman who wanted
to be professional in the '70s

757
00:43:11,425 --> 00:43:13,135
was supposed to present.

758
00:43:13,468 --> 00:43:14,678
[camera shutter snapping]

759
00:43:15,554 --> 00:43:19,266
[Anh] Seduction is part of her being,
it's part of her power.

760
00:43:19,808 --> 00:43:23,061
She knows exactly
how far she can go with it

761
00:43:23,145 --> 00:43:26,148
and she knows how great she is at it.

762
00:43:26,231 --> 00:43:29,735
But it's a sweet weapon,
it's not necessarily an aggressive,

763
00:43:29,818 --> 00:43:32,446
it's a very, um, loving one too.

764
00:43:34,656 --> 00:43:38,869
[Christian Louboutin]
When I first met her, it was in Paris,

765
00:43:38,952 --> 00:43:40,829
and I do remember
that immediately she says,

766
00:43:40,913 --> 00:43:42,831
"You know the guy you
were just speaking to?"

767
00:43:42,915 --> 00:43:44,625
She said, "He's very sexy."

768
00:43:45,042 --> 00:43:46,210
I said, "Go for it."

769
00:43:46,293 --> 00:43:49,213
So, the funny thing is that,
without knowing each other,

770
00:43:49,296 --> 00:43:52,174
after two minutes she had spotted someone
and she was like on it.

771
00:43:52,257 --> 00:43:54,051
She actually,
I think that they had an affair

772
00:43:54,134 --> 00:43:56,178
at that one point quite quickly after.

773
00:43:56,261 --> 00:43:58,722
Back then, you shared yourself

774
00:43:58,805 --> 00:44:01,058
where you wanted to share yourself.

775
00:44:01,141 --> 00:44:04,269
I mean, women should do what men can do.

776
00:44:04,603 --> 00:44:07,731
I mean, why can a man get away
with things and women can't?

777
00:44:07,814 --> 00:44:10,734
Uh, that's just... whatever.

778
00:44:10,817 --> 00:44:13,904
[♪ rock music playing]

779
00:44:19,326 --> 00:44:23,372
Different times there'd be
a male model or a movie star,

780
00:44:23,455 --> 00:44:26,458
or, you know, whoever in, you know,

781
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:28,585
her room when I would go give her a kiss

782
00:44:28,669 --> 00:44:31,255
to go, before I went to school,
that would never faze me.

783
00:44:32,881 --> 00:44:34,424
[Tatiana] I knew
who her boyfriends were,

784
00:44:35,133 --> 00:44:36,885
the three or four that she had,

785
00:44:37,928 --> 00:44:39,429
but I don't know what else she did.

786
00:44:40,013 --> 00:44:42,182
Nor am I really interested. [laughs]

787
00:44:42,266 --> 00:44:44,184
♪ One, two, three, let's go ♪

788
00:44:44,685 --> 00:44:46,395
[♪ guitar solo]

789
00:44:46,478 --> 00:44:48,272
[Alexander von Furstenberg]
Has she given you the list?

790
00:44:48,355 --> 00:44:50,315
-[director] She has given me the list.
-[laughs]

791
00:44:50,732 --> 00:44:52,442
And she's proud of it.

792
00:44:53,026 --> 00:44:54,945
-[director] It's pretty cool.
-It's pretty cool.

793
00:44:55,028 --> 00:44:56,780
-[laughing]
-[director] It's pretty cool.

794
00:44:56,864 --> 00:44:59,533
I mean, how many people live like that?

795
00:45:02,244 --> 00:45:04,663
[director] Did you have relationships
with any of these guys?

796
00:45:05,163 --> 00:45:06,999
[Diane] What do you call a relationship?

797
00:45:07,875 --> 00:45:09,585
Did I seduce him?

798
00:45:09,668 --> 00:45:10,669
Yes.

799
00:45:11,003 --> 00:45:13,505
I was with Warren Beatty
and Ryan O’Neal

800
00:45:13,589 --> 00:45:14,965
on the same weekend.

801
00:45:16,466 --> 00:45:17,634
How about that?

802
00:45:17,718 --> 00:45:20,179
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

803
00:45:20,262 --> 00:45:24,683
And I had a thing with Richard Gere.
He was cute.

804
00:45:25,058 --> 00:45:28,645
One day, Mick Jagger
came with David Bowie.

805
00:45:28,729 --> 00:45:31,523
You know, maybe we could
all have fun together,

806
00:45:31,607 --> 00:45:32,900
the three of us.

807
00:45:32,983 --> 00:45:37,237
And I thought, "Well, that's something
I could tell my grandchildren."

808
00:45:38,322 --> 00:45:40,616
But they were both sitting on the sofa

809
00:45:40,699 --> 00:45:43,952
and I just thought,
"This is... I can't... I mean, I can't.

810
00:45:44,036 --> 00:45:45,662
I just, I just can't do that."

811
00:45:45,746 --> 00:45:48,498
So I said, "Guys, I love you very much,

812
00:45:48,582 --> 00:45:50,792
but I think you're gonna
have to go elsewhere."

813
00:45:52,085 --> 00:45:54,922
[Talita von Furstenberg] She really did
live her life the way she wanted.

814
00:45:55,005 --> 00:45:58,592
I mean, she rejected a threesome
with Mick Jagger and Bowie.

815
00:45:58,675 --> 00:46:00,344
Resisting those two rock stars

816
00:46:00,427 --> 00:46:03,138
in the prime of their career
is just really epic.

817
00:46:03,222 --> 00:46:06,183
[♪ rock music continues]

818
00:46:06,683 --> 00:46:10,062
I was having a man's life
in a woman's body.

819
00:46:10,145 --> 00:46:12,356
Yes. God, yes.

820
00:46:13,106 --> 00:46:15,108
[♪ pensive music playing]

821
00:46:17,986 --> 00:46:20,197
And then of course, I met Barry

822
00:46:21,156 --> 00:46:22,157
and fell in love.

823
00:46:23,325 --> 00:46:27,788
[Barry Diller] The first time I met Diane
is definitely embedded

824
00:46:27,871 --> 00:46:29,498
solidly into my brain.

825
00:46:29,581 --> 00:46:31,500
And there is some controversy

826
00:46:31,583 --> 00:46:33,544
'cause Diane actually
says it didn't happen,

827
00:46:33,627 --> 00:46:35,462
but I know that it did happen.

828
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:40,467
It was at a dinner
given by friends of mine.

829
00:46:40,551 --> 00:46:44,346
Diane and Egon came to this dinner

830
00:46:44,429 --> 00:46:48,475
and I was introduced to Diane,

831
00:46:48,934 --> 00:46:52,479
who looked at me like I was cellophane.

832
00:46:54,398 --> 00:46:58,443
At one point, Egon came up to me,
who I'd never met before,

833
00:46:58,527 --> 00:47:00,529
and he said, "Your pants are too short."

834
00:47:03,073 --> 00:47:04,491
And, of course, they were.

835
00:47:07,202 --> 00:47:08,412
I wasn't chopped liver,

836
00:47:09,913 --> 00:47:12,416
I was chairman of Paramount Pictures.

837
00:47:14,543 --> 00:47:18,005
I left that night and I thought,

838
00:47:18,088 --> 00:47:19,965
"I never wanna see those people again."

839
00:47:20,924 --> 00:47:25,679
But less than a year later,
Diane gave a dinner.

840
00:47:25,762 --> 00:47:27,723
So I go to the dinner,

841
00:47:28,182 --> 00:47:31,476
I was gonna stay 20 minutes,

842
00:47:32,060 --> 00:47:36,648
and I ended up staying
more than an hour and a half or so.

843
00:47:36,732 --> 00:47:39,067
Most of the time spent talking to Diane.

844
00:47:39,651 --> 00:47:43,739
There was some absolute magnetism
in the air between us.

845
00:47:43,822 --> 00:47:45,991
[♪ "Heart of Glass" by Blondie playing]

846
00:47:46,074 --> 00:47:50,454
[Diane] Barry came into my life
and the feeling was very sudden

847
00:47:50,537 --> 00:47:52,873
and very, very, very strong.

848
00:47:52,956 --> 00:47:55,834
He just opened up,
and he had never opened to anyone,

849
00:47:55,918 --> 00:47:59,254
and he opened up to me
without even thinking.

850
00:48:00,380 --> 00:48:03,342
That's what I fell in love with.

851
00:48:04,551 --> 00:48:07,137
♪ Much o' mistrust, love's gone behind ♪

852
00:48:10,224 --> 00:48:13,435
I've always been attracted to shy men

853
00:48:13,519 --> 00:48:16,647
'cause I feel like I can
bring something out of them.

854
00:48:17,064 --> 00:48:20,567
She cracked me open
from almost the first day.

855
00:48:22,361 --> 00:48:24,279
Magic, sorceress?

856
00:48:25,322 --> 00:48:28,075
I don't know what, but she did.

857
00:48:29,368 --> 00:48:32,496
We were madly in love, madly in love.

858
00:48:34,039 --> 00:48:36,500
But we were two tycoons.

859
00:48:36,583 --> 00:48:39,336
He was chairman of Paramount Pictures.

860
00:48:39,962 --> 00:48:41,713
I was this big success.

861
00:48:42,130 --> 00:48:45,968
[Barry] In the early years,
we were both kinda busy,

862
00:48:46,051 --> 00:48:48,887
so half of our relationship
was being apart

863
00:48:48,971 --> 00:48:50,389
and half was being together.

864
00:48:51,807 --> 00:48:55,102
This was a time also
when there was a lot of freedom

865
00:48:55,185 --> 00:48:58,772
of dating, having side relationships,

866
00:48:58,856 --> 00:49:01,149
and flirting, and all of that.

867
00:49:02,025 --> 00:49:03,151
Whatever your excesses were,

868
00:49:03,235 --> 00:49:06,405
whatever your sexuality was,
it was all okay.

869
00:49:06,488 --> 00:49:07,906
It was before AIDS,

870
00:49:07,990 --> 00:49:11,535
it was before any kind of moral clamp down

871
00:49:11,618 --> 00:49:13,745
that happened in the Reagan years.

872
00:49:14,997 --> 00:49:19,042
It was the Studio 54 of our lives.

873
00:49:19,126 --> 00:49:21,628
[♪ "I Feel Love" by Donna Summer playing]

874
00:49:26,175 --> 00:49:28,010
[TV presenter 1] Studio 54.

875
00:49:28,093 --> 00:49:30,470
It attracts the rich and the famous,

876
00:49:30,554 --> 00:49:32,222
the glamorous and the powerful.

877
00:49:32,306 --> 00:49:34,808
[TV presenter 2] Piercing lights,
a cascade of special effects,

878
00:49:35,559 --> 00:49:38,478
supple-bodied young waiters
dressed in nothing but shorts,

879
00:49:38,562 --> 00:49:42,149
and the dance floor,
where practically anything goes.

880
00:49:42,232 --> 00:49:43,901
♪♪

881
00:49:43,984 --> 00:49:45,569
[Diane] We thought
we had invented freedom.

882
00:49:47,779 --> 00:49:51,450
I had lots of friends there,
you know, Bianca Jagger,

883
00:49:51,533 --> 00:49:54,536
Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli,

884
00:49:54,620 --> 00:49:57,748
and everybody ended up there
late at night, you know?

885
00:49:57,831 --> 00:49:58,874
♪♪

886
00:49:58,957 --> 00:50:03,003
Very often I would have dinner
with my children and my mother,

887
00:50:03,420 --> 00:50:05,047
and then later that night

888
00:50:05,130 --> 00:50:09,176
I would put my cowboy boots on
and drive my car.

889
00:50:10,177 --> 00:50:15,182
I would just feel so free
because I would walk in alone.

890
00:50:17,017 --> 00:50:19,561
[Bob] Everything just
sort of was so open

891
00:50:19,645 --> 00:50:21,897
and Diane was very much
in the middle of that.

892
00:50:23,565 --> 00:50:26,860
[Gigi] There were no rules,
you just did what felt good.

893
00:50:27,903 --> 00:50:30,030
You met somebody, you went home with them.

894
00:50:30,864 --> 00:50:32,991
I don't think I've ever had a date.

895
00:50:33,075 --> 00:50:34,076
[chuckles]

896
00:50:34,826 --> 00:50:38,497
It wasn't, okay, now I'm with a man,
or now I'm with a woman.

897
00:50:38,956 --> 00:50:41,333
Diane and I flirted
with each other all the time.

898
00:50:43,252 --> 00:50:46,129
We thought nothing could be
better for you than promiscuity.

899
00:50:46,213 --> 00:50:48,382
For sure, promiscuity was good for you.

900
00:50:49,132 --> 00:50:52,427
It was a time of more people
having more sex.

901
00:50:53,095 --> 00:50:54,555
Even straight people.

902
00:50:55,013 --> 00:50:57,933
♪ I feel love ♪

903
00:50:58,809 --> 00:51:00,561
[Barry] A lot of people were doing drugs.

904
00:51:00,644 --> 00:51:05,107
I was not, Diane was
just smoking marijuana.

905
00:51:07,025 --> 00:51:09,111
[Fran] Cocaine was like
a huge drug, and Quaaludes.

906
00:51:10,571 --> 00:51:12,614
Steve Rubell, who was one of the owners,

907
00:51:12,698 --> 00:51:13,699
he would always put like a,

908
00:51:13,782 --> 00:51:15,868
like a handful in your hand
when you went in.

909
00:51:15,951 --> 00:51:17,244
I would always take the Quaaludes

910
00:51:17,327 --> 00:51:18,954
because girls liked them,
but I never took one.

911
00:51:19,037 --> 00:51:20,372
It didn't last that long,

912
00:51:20,455 --> 00:51:22,624
I, I think it lasted like two years maybe.

913
00:51:22,708 --> 00:51:24,376
I could be wrong, maybe even less.

914
00:51:27,296 --> 00:51:32,134
[Linda] Diane gave a going-away party
for Steve Rubell.

915
00:51:32,718 --> 00:51:37,181
I was such a Gidget that I asked
whoever's standing next to me

916
00:51:37,264 --> 00:51:38,932
where Steve Rubell was going.

917
00:51:39,016 --> 00:51:42,769
I thought, "Oh, some
fantastic vacation or something."

918
00:51:42,853 --> 00:51:44,813
And the answer was, "To jail."

919
00:51:44,897 --> 00:51:46,231
[laughs]

920
00:51:48,692 --> 00:51:51,945
[Bob] Diane's parties
were just great mixes of people.

921
00:51:52,821 --> 00:51:54,698
It was uptown and downtown.

922
00:51:55,574 --> 00:51:58,452
It was Henry Kissinger,
or it was Norman Mailer,

923
00:51:58,535 --> 00:52:01,663
it was Susan Sontag, it was Andy.

924
00:52:02,039 --> 00:52:05,751
And, um, you know, Diane and Egon
always remained really friendly.

925
00:52:06,793 --> 00:52:11,632
He would roll with, you know,
a posse of five, six guys.

926
00:52:11,715 --> 00:52:13,592
There was no judgment,
there was no hiding.

927
00:52:13,675 --> 00:52:15,969
I knew that he was gay, very, you know...

928
00:52:16,053 --> 00:52:19,264
He was, uh, very open and honest.

929
00:52:21,225 --> 00:52:25,354
[Tatiana] I think my dad's nickname
was "Egon von First in Bed".

930
00:52:25,437 --> 00:52:26,772
I mean, I certainly met many people

931
00:52:26,855 --> 00:52:28,524
that were his boyfriends.

932
00:52:29,566 --> 00:52:31,652
But you have to understand, at the time,

933
00:52:31,735 --> 00:52:34,154
my dad's promiscuity,
it was, like, terrifying

934
00:52:34,780 --> 00:52:37,574
because that was the beginning of AIDS.

935
00:52:37,866 --> 00:52:40,244
[♪ solemn music playing]

936
00:52:42,538 --> 00:52:44,623
[Gigi] In 1981 I became very aware

937
00:52:44,998 --> 00:52:46,708
that something was killing everybody.

938
00:52:49,044 --> 00:52:51,296
And that was our clique,
that was our group.

939
00:52:53,507 --> 00:52:55,801
Everything went back to the dark ages.

940
00:52:57,427 --> 00:52:58,846
Free love was gone.

941
00:52:59,388 --> 00:53:01,515
♪♪

942
00:53:01,598 --> 00:53:03,475
[Diane] It was a difficult time.

943
00:53:03,559 --> 00:53:05,102
A lot of people were dying,

944
00:53:05,185 --> 00:53:08,146
a lot of talented people, young people.

945
00:53:08,856 --> 00:53:11,275
You know, all of our family friends.

946
00:53:11,358 --> 00:53:14,194
I mean, my mom and dad
both worked in fashion

947
00:53:14,695 --> 00:53:17,489
and, um, it was like everybody.

948
00:53:20,701 --> 00:53:25,080
[Alexander] AIDS had a really
huge impact on my family

949
00:53:25,998 --> 00:53:28,250
in a really deep way.

950
00:53:28,792 --> 00:53:30,419
And most importantly, my father.

951
00:53:33,297 --> 00:53:36,758
[Diane] I remember when he told me
that he was positive.

952
00:53:38,552 --> 00:53:41,680
My children were traumatized.

953
00:53:43,182 --> 00:53:47,436
[Alexander] And I saw him suffer
for, you know, close to a decade.

954
00:53:49,688 --> 00:53:53,525
[Tatiana] I was so terrified
of him dying, like, terrified.

955
00:53:55,444 --> 00:53:58,405
[Diane] I loved him,
I never stopped loving him.

956
00:54:00,115 --> 00:54:03,493
I was with Egon
with my children when he died.

957
00:54:03,577 --> 00:54:04,912
♪♪

958
00:54:04,995 --> 00:54:06,622
I closed his eyes.

959
00:54:11,126 --> 00:54:13,712
[Alexander] Watching someone
that was full of life,

960
00:54:13,795 --> 00:54:17,466
life of the party,
slowly dwindle away

961
00:54:18,133 --> 00:54:20,552
from AIDS sucked.

962
00:54:21,929 --> 00:54:23,889
And I actually watched him die.

963
00:54:23,972 --> 00:54:26,266
I watched him take his last breath,

964
00:54:27,476 --> 00:54:28,977
and dying sucks.

965
00:54:32,940 --> 00:54:34,251
[♪ solemn music fades out]

966
00:54:36,527 --> 00:54:37,903
[TV presenter] Diane von Furstenberg

967
00:54:37,986 --> 00:54:41,198
is a name known to women
throughout this country.

968
00:54:41,281 --> 00:54:43,742
Once dismissed as a frivolous jet setter,

969
00:54:43,825 --> 00:54:47,079
she has since built
a multimillion-dollar fragrance

970
00:54:47,162 --> 00:54:50,999
and fashion empire
aimed at women, not unlike herself.

971
00:54:51,083 --> 00:54:54,086
When did you decide
that the time had come

972
00:54:54,169 --> 00:54:56,588
to begin building your empire?

973
00:54:57,381 --> 00:54:58,924
Well, it didn't come that way.

974
00:54:59,007 --> 00:55:00,717
I very much wanted to work,

975
00:55:00,801 --> 00:55:02,678
I very much wanted to be independent

976
00:55:02,761 --> 00:55:05,597
and then I was
very successful very quickly,

977
00:55:05,681 --> 00:55:08,141
made enormous amount of money
very quickly,

978
00:55:08,225 --> 00:55:10,936
and then all of a sudden,
woom, lost it all.

979
00:55:12,563 --> 00:55:16,233
One morning we woke up
and every newspaper was,

980
00:55:16,316 --> 00:55:17,860
all the dresses were on sale.

981
00:55:19,236 --> 00:55:21,530
I was saturating the market.

982
00:55:21,905 --> 00:55:26,660
Every woman in America, she had
one, two, five, ten, sometimes twenty

983
00:55:26,743 --> 00:55:28,370
of the same dresses.

984
00:55:28,453 --> 00:55:29,830
That couldn't go on.

985
00:55:31,623 --> 00:55:37,004
It was very difficult, all these
big responsibilities, liabilities,

986
00:55:37,171 --> 00:55:40,841
and I went through a midlife crisis

987
00:55:40,924 --> 00:55:44,845
that usually a big businessman of 50 has.

988
00:55:46,013 --> 00:55:47,931
My company was in trouble

989
00:55:48,849 --> 00:55:53,562
and then something happened
that was 100 times worse.

990
00:55:55,814 --> 00:56:00,319
I had a phone call
from my mother's companion.

991
00:56:01,403 --> 00:56:05,157
They had gone on
a business trip to Germany

992
00:56:06,158 --> 00:56:09,745
and I don't know what happened,

993
00:56:09,828 --> 00:56:12,873
but something must have triggered.

994
00:56:13,373 --> 00:56:18,212
He woke up and he looked for her,
and he could not find her.

995
00:56:19,004 --> 00:56:20,714
And he went to the lobby

996
00:56:20,797 --> 00:56:23,091
and she was hiding

997
00:56:23,175 --> 00:56:26,803
under the concierge's desk.

998
00:56:28,597 --> 00:56:31,600
She went crazy.

999
00:56:32,851 --> 00:56:34,478
[Linda] She was in Germany

1000
00:56:34,561 --> 00:56:37,523
and there were German men
around talking loudly.

1001
00:56:38,232 --> 00:56:42,110
It just triggered a whole panic.

1002
00:56:43,153 --> 00:56:45,989
And so she was in a mental ward.

1003
00:56:47,574 --> 00:56:51,787
[Diane] I took a plane from New York
and I came to Geneva.

1004
00:56:53,038 --> 00:56:56,375
I brought the children
because I needed them to be near me.

1005
00:56:57,626 --> 00:57:01,088
I arrived in the hospital
and I discovered my mother,

1006
00:57:01,171 --> 00:57:05,884
tiny, tiny, tiny,
like a little bird on her bed

1007
00:57:05,968 --> 00:57:07,845
with her fur coat on her.

1008
00:57:08,345 --> 00:57:10,472
Her fur coat, you have to understand,

1009
00:57:11,890 --> 00:57:15,102
was probably
the most meaningful thing for her.

1010
00:57:17,396 --> 00:57:20,816
[Linda] She had bought the fur coat
with the reparations

1011
00:57:20,899 --> 00:57:22,317
from the German government

1012
00:57:23,068 --> 00:57:25,529
because she had been so cold, so cold,

1013
00:57:25,612 --> 00:57:28,699
how she survived,
I really do not know.

1014
00:57:40,627 --> 00:57:43,297
[Diane] When my mother had her breakdown,

1015
00:57:43,380 --> 00:57:46,592
that's when I had just a taste

1016
00:57:46,675 --> 00:57:49,803
of the horrible stuff she went through.

1017
00:57:51,346 --> 00:57:56,226
That's when I understood
how hard it had been on her.

1018
00:57:58,187 --> 00:58:03,275
"Between August 1942 and July '44,

1019
00:58:03,942 --> 00:58:08,906
"twenty-eight trains
left from the Dossin barracks

1020
00:58:08,989 --> 00:58:14,119
and deported 25,628 Jews."

1021
00:58:14,453 --> 00:58:17,456
So she went in, she went in one like that.

1022
00:58:18,332 --> 00:58:19,499
Crazy, huh?

1023
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:25,297
My mother gets arrested in Belgium,

1024
00:58:25,380 --> 00:58:30,010
five days in the cattle train,
no food, no water,

1025
00:58:30,093 --> 00:58:33,680
people, you know, throwing up,
all of that.

1026
00:58:34,056 --> 00:58:38,727
And she always told me,
"Fear is not an option."

1027
00:58:40,229 --> 00:58:44,107
When she was arrested,
she took some cardboard

1028
00:58:44,191 --> 00:58:46,485
and she wrote to her parents,

1029
00:58:46,568 --> 00:58:50,239
and she threw it in the, in--
on the street

1030
00:58:50,322 --> 00:58:53,992
hoping that somebody would find it.

1031
00:58:54,076 --> 00:58:56,745
And she never--
See, she said, "Merci beaucoup,"

1032
00:58:56,828 --> 00:59:00,707
she gave the address,
and she wrote to her parents.

1033
00:59:16,348 --> 00:59:17,349
[emotional sigh]

1034
00:59:28,735 --> 00:59:31,488
[♪ somber music playing]

1035
00:59:32,781 --> 00:59:38,912
My mother is incredibly,
incredibly important.

1036
00:59:39,246 --> 00:59:42,332
In every cell of my being.

1037
00:59:47,963 --> 00:59:51,466
[guide] Only the ones in sepia
are the ones who survived.

1038
00:59:51,550 --> 00:59:56,388
So, everybody in black and white
did not survive.

1039
00:59:58,557 --> 01:00:01,476
[Diane] She lived the horror

1040
01:00:02,019 --> 01:00:05,981
that none of us can even imagine.

1041
01:00:07,274 --> 01:00:09,276
♪♪

1042
01:00:09,776 --> 01:00:12,487
[Tatiana] When my grandmother
had her nervous breakdown in Germany,

1043
01:00:12,571 --> 01:00:14,615
I think it was
my mother's worst nightmare,

1044
01:00:14,698 --> 01:00:17,910
because we always tried to keep her buoyed

1045
01:00:18,827 --> 01:00:21,121
and it took her about a year
to fully recover.

1046
01:00:24,625 --> 01:00:28,253
[Diane] After my mother got better
we came back to New York

1047
01:00:29,129 --> 01:00:32,841
and I was invited to get an award

1048
01:00:32,925 --> 01:00:36,637
by the Anti-Defamation League
at the Hotel Pierre.

1049
01:00:37,596 --> 01:00:40,474
They called me on stage and I said,

1050
01:00:40,557 --> 01:00:44,811
"You all know me because,
you know, of my dresses,

1051
01:00:44,895 --> 01:00:48,607
"but what you don't know
is that 18 months before I was born,

1052
01:00:48,982 --> 01:00:53,278
my mother was in Auschwitz,
I am a child of a survivor."

1053
01:00:56,782 --> 01:01:00,077
To hear myself saying that

1054
01:01:00,619 --> 01:01:03,288
was so shocking to me.

1055
01:01:03,372 --> 01:01:07,417
I started to tremble,
I couldn't believe that I said that.

1056
01:01:07,876 --> 01:01:10,295
And I remember I walked back home

1057
01:01:11,296 --> 01:01:13,215
and I was in shock.

1058
01:01:13,674 --> 01:01:16,552
I had realized...

1059
01:01:17,719 --> 01:01:20,931
who I was and where I came from,

1060
01:01:21,014 --> 01:01:23,809
and before that I had never done that.

1061
01:01:24,476 --> 01:01:27,062
Her way to deal with being sad sometimes

1062
01:01:27,145 --> 01:01:29,523
is to really concentrate
on something else.

1063
01:01:29,606 --> 01:01:33,986
So it's, it is there,
but she doesn't wanna put it in front.

1064
01:01:35,445 --> 01:01:38,657
[Diane] That was key moment in my life.

1065
01:01:39,741 --> 01:01:43,120
I had all of a sudden
the responsibility to talk about it,

1066
01:01:43,620 --> 01:01:45,956
and I didn't wanna do that.

1067
01:01:46,039 --> 01:01:49,626
I wanted to go as far
as I could possibly go.

1068
01:01:51,128 --> 01:01:54,006
I took my children and we went to Bali.

1069
01:01:56,383 --> 01:02:02,472
I fell into nature,
and, and sarongs, and volcanoes,

1070
01:02:02,556 --> 01:02:06,852
and... and I just lived a fantasy.

1071
01:02:07,728 --> 01:02:09,813
[waves crashing]

1072
01:02:10,731 --> 01:02:12,608
And there I met Paolo,

1073
01:02:14,776 --> 01:02:16,570
and we fell in love.

1074
01:02:19,698 --> 01:02:23,994
Into my life you came,
bringing peace to my heart,

1075
01:02:24,077 --> 01:02:27,581
fire to my body, love to my soul.

1076
01:02:28,540 --> 01:02:33,837
In your eyes,
I see myself feeling, reaching,

1077
01:02:33,921 --> 01:02:37,174
looking for perfect harmony.

1078
01:02:37,257 --> 01:02:39,927
[presenter] The words
are Diane von Furstenberg's,

1079
01:02:40,010 --> 01:02:43,263
and they are the very essence
of her new perfume,

1080
01:02:43,639 --> 01:02:45,015
Volcan D'Amour.

1081
01:02:45,098 --> 01:02:50,062
It's love, it's a promise,
almost a commitment.

1082
01:02:51,438 --> 01:02:53,815
[Barry] What a contrast from me

1083
01:02:54,650 --> 01:02:58,612
to a Brazilian kinda beach boy.

1084
01:02:59,363 --> 01:03:02,407
She was developing an alternative life
to the one she had,

1085
01:03:03,283 --> 01:03:06,078
and she was on a different planet.

1086
01:03:07,538 --> 01:03:09,414
I was devastated.

1087
01:03:10,666 --> 01:03:13,669
[Diane] I was reinventing my life,
you know?

1088
01:03:15,337 --> 01:03:17,631
And that's what happens in a lifetime.

1089
01:03:19,383 --> 01:03:22,886
[Peter Arnell] The Bali period, to me,
was an escape from a pain

1090
01:03:22,970 --> 01:03:24,471
that she couldn't manage,

1091
01:03:25,097 --> 01:03:27,057
I think she ran away from it.

1092
01:03:27,599 --> 01:03:29,393
I don't think it was a cop-out.

1093
01:03:29,476 --> 01:03:33,939
I think it was a necessary step
to remove herself

1094
01:03:34,022 --> 01:03:37,109
from problems
that maybe she couldn't face.

1095
01:03:40,779 --> 01:03:43,282
[Diane] Then I fell in love
with a writer...

1096
01:03:44,324 --> 01:03:46,076
and I moved to Paris.

1097
01:03:51,331 --> 01:03:54,418
[Gioia] After the Brazilian
that she'd picked up on the beach

1098
01:03:54,501 --> 01:03:57,212
she falls in love with Alain Elkann,

1099
01:03:57,588 --> 01:04:01,049
a rising writer living in Paris.

1100
01:04:01,717 --> 01:04:05,804
[Diane] All of a sudden
I was the muse of a writer.

1101
01:04:06,263 --> 01:04:09,558
I didn't really run a business anymore,

1102
01:04:10,309 --> 01:04:13,687
so I fulfilled another fantasy.

1103
01:04:13,770 --> 01:04:15,981
I had a literary salon

1104
01:04:16,064 --> 01:04:19,026
and I started a small publishing house.

1105
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:23,947
[Linda] She goes
deeply into this literary life

1106
01:04:24,865 --> 01:04:29,578
and he didn't like her
jazzy, zippy, vivid colors,

1107
01:04:29,661 --> 01:04:32,289
wonderful designed clothes, no!

1108
01:04:32,372 --> 01:04:37,336
So she's walking around
in a gray skirt and a green cardigan.

1109
01:04:38,086 --> 01:04:39,963
This was not Diane.

1110
01:04:40,464 --> 01:04:41,924
[Gioia] I remember
the first time I saw her,

1111
01:04:42,508 --> 01:04:44,301
I had to do a double-take.

1112
01:04:44,384 --> 01:04:45,802
I hardly recognized her

1113
01:04:45,886 --> 01:04:49,223
because she looked more like
Susan Sontag than DVF.

1114
01:04:50,891 --> 01:04:53,435
[Tatiana] Me and my brother
felt like she was a little bit

1115
01:04:53,852 --> 01:04:56,063
impressionable at that time, you know?

1116
01:04:56,146 --> 01:04:58,690
Like, she was giving up who she was

1117
01:04:58,774 --> 01:05:01,693
and becoming kind of
enmeshed in his identity.

1118
01:05:03,278 --> 01:05:06,240
[Diane] Actually, Alain and I
had a great relationship.

1119
01:05:07,324 --> 01:05:10,118
But then he had an affair
with my best friend.

1120
01:05:10,827 --> 01:05:14,039
[Linda] Diane said,
"Fazoo," and came home.

1121
01:05:18,085 --> 01:05:21,713
[Diane] I missed my home in America.

1122
01:05:22,965 --> 01:05:25,008
So I came back to New York

1123
01:05:26,176 --> 01:05:28,720
and that was the hardest year
when I came back.

1124
01:05:30,055 --> 01:05:32,182
My children went to boarding school.

1125
01:05:33,433 --> 01:05:35,018
[Tatiana] My mom was really upset

1126
01:05:35,102 --> 01:05:37,396
when I went to boarding school,
really upset.

1127
01:05:38,814 --> 01:05:40,941
[Diane] I really, really cried.

1128
01:05:41,024 --> 01:05:44,611
That was a big, big, big, big cry.

1129
01:05:48,282 --> 01:05:51,159
[Tatiana] I think my mom
in a way always felt

1130
01:05:51,243 --> 01:05:53,453
like she was playing catch-up
with me, you know?

1131
01:05:53,537 --> 01:05:55,205
Like, she was always trying to connect

1132
01:05:55,289 --> 01:05:57,457
and I was always a little bit elusive.

1133
01:05:58,792 --> 01:06:00,627
Sometimes she wanted more quality time,

1134
01:06:00,711 --> 01:06:03,839
but it was like I couldn't,
I would ice her out.

1135
01:06:05,090 --> 01:06:06,425
Maybe it was too little, too late.

1136
01:06:07,009 --> 01:06:08,927
And so I think
when I went to boarding school,

1137
01:06:09,011 --> 01:06:10,387
I think it was really devastating for her

1138
01:06:10,470 --> 01:06:14,474
because I was gone now
and I didn't ever move back home.

1139
01:06:14,558 --> 01:06:17,102
I was gone and we were
still playing catch-up.

1140
01:06:22,107 --> 01:06:25,152
[Diane] "Dear Mommy, I was wondering

1141
01:06:25,235 --> 01:06:27,905
"if I could have a talk with you sometime,

1142
01:06:28,405 --> 01:06:31,700
because, Mommy, you don't know
anything about my life."

1143
01:06:33,452 --> 01:06:35,537
[Tatiana] I think I wrote
that note, "Dear Mom,

1144
01:06:35,621 --> 01:06:37,623
you know absolutely nothing about me."

1145
01:06:38,165 --> 01:06:39,249
That's how I felt.

1146
01:06:40,751 --> 01:06:43,837
[Diane] I pinned that note on my board

1147
01:06:43,921 --> 01:06:47,216
and I looked at that note all the time,

1148
01:06:48,175 --> 01:06:51,470
and yet I didn't understand the note.

1149
01:06:53,597 --> 01:06:57,768
I did not realize
that Tatiana had a disability.

1150
01:06:59,603 --> 01:07:01,313
[Tatiana] My family had no idea

1151
01:07:01,396 --> 01:07:03,982
that I was born
with a neuromuscular disease.

1152
01:07:04,733 --> 01:07:07,611
It's basically exercise induced paralysis.

1153
01:07:08,320 --> 01:07:11,532
So I can't run,
I can't jump, I can't do stairs.

1154
01:07:12,157 --> 01:07:15,035
She was born in a family
that everybody was so active,

1155
01:07:15,118 --> 01:07:18,038
and going and running and going,

1156
01:07:18,580 --> 01:07:20,624
and she could not do that.

1157
01:07:20,707 --> 01:07:22,209
[children laughing]

1158
01:07:22,292 --> 01:07:26,630
So I took myself to, uh, the doctor
when I was like 21 years old,

1159
01:07:27,256 --> 01:07:29,842
and I was diagnosed in 30 minutes,
it was, like, ridiculous.

1160
01:07:29,925 --> 01:07:31,593
And it was, like, so affirming

1161
01:07:31,677 --> 01:07:36,056
because I thought that,
like, I had a mental block.

1162
01:07:37,224 --> 01:07:39,977
[Diane] I didn't realize
that for her it was so painful,

1163
01:07:41,520 --> 01:07:44,439
and that is something that I...

1164
01:07:45,274 --> 01:07:50,028
I really regret
that I did not acknowledge it.

1165
01:07:51,446 --> 01:07:56,243
That is really one regret,

1166
01:07:56,326 --> 01:07:58,120
big regret that I have.

1167
01:08:01,623 --> 01:08:04,251
[TV presenter] The Diane von Furstenberg
sportswear collection

1168
01:08:04,334 --> 01:08:05,794
by Puritan.

1169
01:08:08,589 --> 01:08:13,260
[Diane] At the time, every product
that carried my name was a license.

1170
01:08:14,219 --> 01:08:16,471
I didn't own anything.

1171
01:08:17,848 --> 01:08:20,767
My brand is in the hands
of all kinds of people,

1172
01:08:20,851 --> 01:08:24,563
nobody listens
to what I want to do or say.

1173
01:08:25,189 --> 01:08:28,650
I didn't realize how much my identity

1174
01:08:28,734 --> 01:08:31,904
was linked to my brand.

1175
01:08:32,529 --> 01:08:34,364
Your name has been on so many products,

1176
01:08:35,073 --> 01:08:37,492
excuse me, but do you
still design yourself?

1177
01:08:39,328 --> 01:08:41,580
Probably the thing
that we remember you most for,

1178
01:08:41,663 --> 01:08:44,791
the thing that really
brought you national, international fame

1179
01:08:44,875 --> 01:08:46,710
was your jersey wrap dress.

1180
01:08:46,793 --> 01:08:49,630
It was very popular,
but at the end you were stuck.

1181
01:08:49,713 --> 01:08:52,508
That was a $4 million package
that you were left with

1182
01:08:52,591 --> 01:08:53,592
and yet you...

1183
01:08:53,675 --> 01:08:56,428
She said, "I hated my life,
I felt like a failure.

1184
01:08:56,512 --> 01:08:58,138
"I felt like a horrible mother.

1185
01:08:58,222 --> 01:09:00,182
I felt like a horrible businessperson."

1186
01:09:02,726 --> 01:09:04,478
And that's when I got cancer.

1187
01:09:04,937 --> 01:09:07,856
[♪ solemn piano music playing]

1188
01:09:09,274 --> 01:09:14,071
I was diagnosed with cancer
at the base of the tongue

1189
01:09:14,446 --> 01:09:16,073
and the soft palate.

1190
01:09:19,618 --> 01:09:21,286
[Barry] I was a wreck.

1191
01:09:22,746 --> 01:09:27,501
But once she knew, she was determinative

1192
01:09:27,584 --> 01:09:30,587
and actually had no patience for my...

1193
01:09:32,589 --> 01:09:34,466
emotionalism over this.

1194
01:09:35,968 --> 01:09:38,428
[Fran] I happened to see her the night
she was diagnosed with cancer.

1195
01:09:39,012 --> 01:09:40,889
I was sitting next to her
and she said to me,

1196
01:09:40,973 --> 01:09:41,974
"I have cancer."

1197
01:09:42,683 --> 01:09:43,892
I was shocked.

1198
01:09:44,476 --> 01:09:46,645
I said, "When did you find this out?"
"Today."

1199
01:09:47,104 --> 01:09:49,690
Today, the day the doctor
told her she had cancer,

1200
01:09:49,773 --> 01:09:50,983
she was at a party.

1201
01:09:51,066 --> 01:09:53,777
That is a thing
that not that many people would do

1202
01:09:53,861 --> 01:09:55,946
because you would be too flipped out.

1203
01:09:57,406 --> 01:09:59,074
I mean, she was a gladiator.

1204
01:10:00,576 --> 01:10:03,620
[Deepak Chopra]
I taught her mantras and sutras

1205
01:10:04,371 --> 01:10:08,166
and she immediately intellectually grasped

1206
01:10:08,250 --> 01:10:12,087
the importance of a stress-free mind.

1207
01:10:13,755 --> 01:10:19,970
[Diane] I meditated,
I went to radiation every day, walking.

1208
01:10:22,514 --> 01:10:27,394
From where I lived,
to the hospital, to my office,

1209
01:10:27,477 --> 01:10:29,730
I realized was like a V.

1210
01:10:30,272 --> 01:10:33,317
So I would walk like that, the blocks,

1211
01:10:33,400 --> 01:10:35,861
making a perfect V for victory.

1212
01:10:36,695 --> 01:10:38,363
♪♪

1213
01:10:40,574 --> 01:10:44,161
I really think that I got the cancer

1214
01:10:44,703 --> 01:10:46,455
at the base of my tongue

1215
01:10:47,497 --> 01:10:53,504
because for last few years,
I could not express myself.

1216
01:10:54,922 --> 01:10:59,843
That's when I realized
that I had to take back my business.

1217
01:10:59,927 --> 01:11:02,221
[♪ bright music playing]

1218
01:11:03,430 --> 01:11:06,099
I am coming back from Paris

1219
01:11:06,600 --> 01:11:10,604
and I meet a man
who has a company with Marvin Traub.

1220
01:11:11,104 --> 01:11:14,566
Marvin Traub was really
the king of retail.

1221
01:11:14,650 --> 01:11:17,611
He was the chairman of Bloomingdale's

1222
01:11:17,694 --> 01:11:21,240
when Bloomingdale's was really it, it, it.

1223
01:11:22,199 --> 01:11:28,080
This man says, "I want to take you
to visit a company called QVC."

1224
01:11:28,163 --> 01:11:29,164
[♪ station jingle plays]

1225
01:11:29,248 --> 01:11:32,209
♪ Q-V-C ♪

1226
01:11:32,876 --> 01:11:36,463
[TV presenter] Live from QVC,
America's quality cable shopping channel.

1227
01:11:36,547 --> 01:11:40,634
Now, QVC was a little tacky.

1228
01:11:40,717 --> 01:11:42,261
[presenter]
A special warm place in your heart

1229
01:11:42,344 --> 01:11:43,595
for your favorite photograph,

1230
01:11:43,679 --> 01:11:46,139
or a place for some potpourri
and a potpourri jar.

1231
01:11:46,223 --> 01:11:48,684
[Diane] I mean, they sold a lot of dolls.

1232
01:11:48,767 --> 01:11:50,227
[presenter] Now, the way
these are designed,

1233
01:11:50,310 --> 01:11:51,520
the pink one has little blue eyes,

1234
01:11:51,603 --> 01:11:53,230
the gray one has black eyes.

1235
01:11:53,313 --> 01:11:55,315
But I tried to be positive.

1236
01:11:55,399 --> 01:11:59,736
We walk into the studio,
and there was Susan Lucci.

1237
01:12:00,112 --> 01:12:02,865
Uh, do we have a moment to talk
about the botanical styling lotion?

1238
01:12:02,948 --> 01:12:06,994
[Diane] Susan Lucci
was a huge soap opera star

1239
01:12:07,077 --> 01:12:09,454
and she was selling shampoo.

1240
01:12:09,538 --> 01:12:10,747
I can't believe it.

1241
01:12:10,831 --> 01:12:15,210
I mean, she sold, I don't know,
$700,000 of shampoo in two hours.

1242
01:12:15,294 --> 01:12:18,088
And I thought,
"Oh, my God, this is fantastic."

1243
01:12:18,172 --> 01:12:20,507
Good morning,
welcome to the Diane von Furstenberg

1244
01:12:20,591 --> 01:12:22,759
Silk Assets Collection.
Who's this, please?

1245
01:12:22,843 --> 01:12:25,679
[caller] [on phone] Good morning, Jane.
This is Susan from Lansdowne, Baltimore.

1246
01:12:25,762 --> 01:12:27,472
Hello, Susan,
please meet Diane von Furstenberg.

1247
01:12:27,556 --> 01:12:29,600
-Hello, Susan. Good morning.
-[Susan] Good morning, Diane.

1248
01:12:29,683 --> 01:12:32,352
I did my first show

1249
01:12:33,145 --> 01:12:35,355
and it was unbelievable.

1250
01:12:35,439 --> 01:12:39,484
You see a television
right there and you see the sales.

1251
01:12:39,818 --> 01:12:42,029
[telemarketer] Thanks
for calling QVC, it's available in red.

1252
01:12:42,112 --> 01:12:43,405
[overlapping chatter]

1253
01:12:43,488 --> 01:12:44,740
[operator] Thanks for calling QVC.

1254
01:12:44,823 --> 01:12:48,785
I mean, we sold a million
and four hundred thousand in two hours.

1255
01:12:51,371 --> 01:12:52,873
[Marc] QVC was very new for people

1256
01:12:54,208 --> 01:12:56,126
and I think at that time

1257
01:12:56,210 --> 01:13:00,506
there was this snobby, snooty elitism

1258
01:13:00,589 --> 01:13:03,133
that said that if you were
a fashion designer

1259
01:13:03,217 --> 01:13:06,595
who used expensive fabrics
and made expensive clothes

1260
01:13:06,678 --> 01:13:08,764
for a sophisticated customer,

1261
01:13:08,847 --> 01:13:12,142
that you'd be tarnished
if you gave your name

1262
01:13:12,226 --> 01:13:17,064
and your talent
to an inexpensive democratic product.

1263
01:13:17,689 --> 01:13:18,899
And I never believed that

1264
01:13:19,608 --> 01:13:21,735
and Diane definitely never believed it.

1265
01:13:21,818 --> 01:13:23,779
[caller] [on phone]
Hi, this is Gail in Savannah, Georgia.

1266
01:13:23,862 --> 01:13:25,572
-Hi, Gail.
-Hi, Gail.

1267
01:13:25,656 --> 01:13:27,407
[Gail] Hi, Diane, hi, Jane. Hello.

1268
01:13:27,491 --> 01:13:29,076
I love Savannah.

1269
01:13:29,159 --> 01:13:32,788
[Vanessa] She's very unsnobby
about people

1270
01:13:32,871 --> 01:13:37,209
and in a way that makes her
even more sort of fabulous. [chuckles]

1271
01:13:37,876 --> 01:13:42,089
There is no place in the world
that you can find

1272
01:13:42,172 --> 01:13:46,218
that quality at those unbelievable prices.

1273
01:13:47,261 --> 01:13:50,305
[Barry] People would criticize Diane
for going on cheap, cheesy QVC,

1274
01:13:50,848 --> 01:13:52,266
but it was great for her.

1275
01:13:52,349 --> 01:13:55,769
It gave her a new way
of being in business.

1276
01:13:55,853 --> 01:13:58,730
It revived her whole career.

1277
01:14:03,277 --> 01:14:06,655
[Diane] I had mentioned
to Barry about QVC.

1278
01:14:07,781 --> 01:14:12,077
Barry had left his job,
so we both felt a little bit,

1279
01:14:12,160 --> 01:14:14,621
how can I say, outsiders, right?

1280
01:14:15,163 --> 01:14:17,207
And so, he took over the company.

1281
01:14:18,041 --> 01:14:19,585
[Lesley Stahl] So you buy QVC.

1282
01:14:19,668 --> 01:14:21,712
-[Barry] Yeah, yeah.
-And people were surprised.

1283
01:14:21,795 --> 01:14:24,464
Yes, I'll say. They said I'd lost my mind.

1284
01:14:24,882 --> 01:14:28,218
Because you had traded this glamour life
in Hollywood for some--

1285
01:14:28,302 --> 01:14:29,553
Yeah, for West Chester, Pennsylvania.

1286
01:14:30,512 --> 01:14:35,142
[Diane] Barry was back in my life
in a more intense way.

1287
01:14:35,976 --> 01:14:38,562
I think at the end, he's my soulmate.

1288
01:14:40,939 --> 01:14:45,360
He was first my lover,
he was then my friend.

1289
01:14:46,028 --> 01:14:49,156
Barry has been
the consistent love in my life.

1290
01:14:50,365 --> 01:14:52,284
[Barry] Little old people
crossing Madison Avenue.

1291
01:14:52,367 --> 01:14:53,368
[Diane laughs]

1292
01:14:53,452 --> 01:14:55,746
[Diane] My mother was living
with me at the time.

1293
01:14:56,246 --> 01:14:59,499
I said to her,
"I think I will marry Barry."

1294
01:15:00,125 --> 01:15:03,670
And she said something,
my mother wasn't big on compliment,

1295
01:15:04,171 --> 01:15:06,256
but she said something that I loved.

1296
01:15:06,340 --> 01:15:09,968
She said, "He deserves you."

1297
01:15:10,928 --> 01:15:14,890
She didn't say,
"Oh, yes, you know, you're 50 years old,

1298
01:15:14,973 --> 01:15:16,016
you should be married."

1299
01:15:16,099 --> 01:15:18,227
She said, "He deserves you."

1300
01:15:18,685 --> 01:15:22,022
Which was a wonderful compliment
to both of us.

1301
01:15:22,648 --> 01:15:25,400
This is my off--
Oh, this is when we got married.

1302
01:15:26,151 --> 01:15:27,861
This is, we met at the office.

1303
01:15:27,945 --> 01:15:29,321
Oh, this is the restaurant we went to.

1304
01:15:29,404 --> 01:15:30,948
-No, no, no, no.
-Yes.

1305
01:15:31,031 --> 01:15:33,283
No, Barry, this is my office.

1306
01:15:33,867 --> 01:15:35,118
[Barry] My birthday was coming up

1307
01:15:35,202 --> 01:15:39,373
and Diane was giving a party
for Alex and Tatiana and me,

1308
01:15:39,456 --> 01:15:40,582
'cause we're all Aquarians.

1309
01:15:41,917 --> 01:15:45,128
[Diane] I said, "If you want,
I'll marry you for your birthday."

1310
01:15:46,213 --> 01:15:49,341
[Barry] Okay,
we'll get married at City Hall,

1311
01:15:49,424 --> 01:15:50,717
we'll tell no one,

1312
01:15:50,801 --> 01:15:52,427
and that's what we did.

1313
01:15:53,637 --> 01:15:55,848
[Diane] And these are
Annie Leibovitz's pictures.

1314
01:15:55,931 --> 01:15:57,724
-[Barry] These are all Annie's.
-[Diane] Yeah.

1315
01:15:58,433 --> 01:15:59,977
[Barry] Our friend Annie Leibovitz

1316
01:16:00,060 --> 01:16:02,521
took all of our wedding pictures
as a present.

1317
01:16:03,689 --> 01:16:08,318
[Diane] It was very sweet,
he gave me 26 wedding bands

1318
01:16:08,402 --> 01:16:11,864
for the 26 years
that we had not been married.

1319
01:16:13,448 --> 01:16:15,534
[Barry] I think she's given a few away,

1320
01:16:16,368 --> 01:16:19,121
but she has still most of them, I hope.

1321
01:16:21,373 --> 01:16:22,708
[Diane] Love is life.

1322
01:16:25,586 --> 01:16:27,838
It's one of
the best relationships I know.

1323
01:16:27,921 --> 01:16:30,549
And, you know, they don't even
live in the same house.

1324
01:16:31,842 --> 01:16:34,052
[Seth Meyers]
My wife and I often say,

1325
01:16:34,136 --> 01:16:36,680
I really hope that we could
get to the point in our life

1326
01:16:36,763 --> 01:16:39,558
where we are as good a fit
as the two of them together.

1327
01:16:40,350 --> 01:16:42,269
They will both cut the other one off

1328
01:16:42,352 --> 01:16:44,980
the second they think
they're saying something stupid.

1329
01:16:45,063 --> 01:16:47,649
If that's not love, I don't know what is.

1330
01:16:48,025 --> 01:16:49,818
-That's not Coldwater.
-Yes.

1331
01:16:49,902 --> 01:16:51,111
-No.
-Yes.

1332
01:16:51,195 --> 01:16:52,654
-Nope.
-Yes.

1333
01:16:52,738 --> 01:16:54,448
I mean, a lot of people
just say really fast together

1334
01:16:54,531 --> 01:16:55,991
like, you know, Barry and Diane.

1335
01:16:56,074 --> 01:16:57,201
I mean to me they're separate

1336
01:16:57,284 --> 01:16:58,619
because I knew them separately,

1337
01:16:58,702 --> 01:17:01,121
but I also see them as being together,

1338
01:17:01,205 --> 01:17:02,915
but not so much as like a couple

1339
01:17:02,998 --> 01:17:04,833
in that kinda old-fashioned way.

1340
01:17:04,917 --> 01:17:08,086
You know, the world is now,
like, immensely accommodating

1341
01:17:08,170 --> 01:17:09,713
to every kind of relationship.

1342
01:17:13,592 --> 01:17:15,344
[director] Andy Warhol said,
"I guess the reason

1343
01:17:15,427 --> 01:17:18,514
"Diller and Diane are a couple
is because she gives him straightness

1344
01:17:18,597 --> 01:17:20,432
and he gives her powerfulness."

1345
01:17:21,225 --> 01:17:22,768
What is your response to that?

1346
01:17:24,102 --> 01:17:26,355
Ooh, it could be the other way around.

1347
01:17:26,813 --> 01:17:27,898
Um...

1348
01:17:29,483 --> 01:17:32,986
I don't know what it means.
I don't know what it means.

1349
01:17:33,820 --> 01:17:35,739
I think we give each other power.

1350
01:17:39,493 --> 01:17:42,746
It-it seems disrespectful
to what we are together.

1351
01:17:43,664 --> 01:17:45,374
We're a great romance.

1352
01:17:46,875 --> 01:17:49,294
What are we going to do when people say,

1353
01:17:49,378 --> 01:17:51,630
isn't it just a marriage of convenience?

1354
01:17:53,715 --> 01:17:56,760
I know, Diane knows our relationship,

1355
01:17:57,719 --> 01:18:00,389
and frankly, while it is
of interest to other people,

1356
01:18:00,472 --> 01:18:04,601
and they can speculate the rainbow,
who cares?

1357
01:18:05,227 --> 01:18:07,229
[inaudible dialogue]

1358
01:18:08,146 --> 01:18:10,440
Her children and her grandchildren

1359
01:18:10,524 --> 01:18:12,276
became my family...

1360
01:18:14,111 --> 01:18:15,362
and her mother.

1361
01:18:15,445 --> 01:18:17,281
[inaudible dialogue]

1362
01:18:18,532 --> 01:18:19,616
[inaudible dialogue]

1363
01:18:20,284 --> 01:18:22,119
[Fran]
Lily lived to be quite old.

1364
01:18:22,202 --> 01:18:24,121
I mean, Diane had her for a long time.

1365
01:18:25,622 --> 01:18:27,916
Diane would take her
on these vacations on the boat.

1366
01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:30,335
I mean, most people
I know wouldn't, like, choose,

1367
01:18:30,419 --> 01:18:31,628
who do you wanna invite on vacation?

1368
01:18:31,712 --> 01:18:34,756
Mom. Most people, no,
they don't wanna invite Mom, um,

1369
01:18:34,840 --> 01:18:36,049
but Diane did.

1370
01:18:36,133 --> 01:18:38,886
[♪ gentle music playing]

1371
01:18:38,969 --> 01:18:41,513
[Diane] My mother lived a long life,

1372
01:18:42,681 --> 01:18:46,476
she died after Antonia was born.

1373
01:18:48,312 --> 01:18:51,064
The day I brought Antonia home
for the first time

1374
01:18:51,148 --> 01:18:54,484
is the last time that I ever saw Lily.

1375
01:18:55,068 --> 01:18:57,821
She gave me her word
that she was gonna meet my daughter

1376
01:18:57,905 --> 01:19:01,408
and she hung on, barely.

1377
01:19:01,950 --> 01:19:04,620
She walked into the hospital room,
she met my daughter.

1378
01:19:05,162 --> 01:19:07,664
They have the same deep brown eyes.

1379
01:19:08,415 --> 01:19:13,462
It was probably the most
emotionally intense day of my life

1380
01:19:13,545 --> 01:19:15,756
because I was bringing home my daughter

1381
01:19:15,839 --> 01:19:19,551
but I was saying goodbye
to the woman who'd been a mother to me.

1382
01:19:20,594 --> 01:19:22,679
And she passed away about a week later.

1383
01:19:24,515 --> 01:19:27,935
[Antonia Steinberg] I definitely heard
a lot of stories about Lily,

1384
01:19:28,018 --> 01:19:29,895
especially from my grandmother.

1385
01:19:29,978 --> 01:19:31,730
Those things that she just repeats,

1386
01:19:32,231 --> 01:19:35,234
"Fear is not an option,
don't be a victim."

1387
01:19:36,235 --> 01:19:40,697
That actually is who she is,
she is very much like that.

1388
01:19:40,781 --> 01:19:42,824
I think that's hugely to do with Lily.

1389
01:19:47,412 --> 01:19:48,914
[audience cheering]

1390
01:19:48,997 --> 01:19:51,583
Diane von Furstenberg
revolutionized style in the 1970s

1391
01:19:51,667 --> 01:19:53,710
when she designed
her signature wrap dress.

1392
01:19:53,794 --> 01:19:57,256
Now she's teamed up with her
20-something daughter-in-law, Alexandra

1393
01:19:57,339 --> 01:20:00,717
to relaunch that dress that your mom
probably still has in her closet

1394
01:20:01,134 --> 01:20:02,636
and is probably still wearing.

1395
01:20:02,719 --> 01:20:04,513
[audience applauding]

1396
01:20:04,596 --> 01:20:08,475
Around '98, I was beginning to notice

1397
01:20:09,142 --> 01:20:12,020
the people who actually
wanted to wear the wrap dress

1398
01:20:12,104 --> 01:20:14,314
were not the people my age...

1399
01:20:14,398 --> 01:20:17,025
[♪ "One Way Or Another"
by Blondie playing]

1400
01:20:17,109 --> 01:20:20,279
...but they were the very hip girls
who would wear them with sneakers.

1401
01:20:20,863 --> 01:20:22,948
[Talita] A whole new generation of girls

1402
01:20:23,031 --> 01:20:25,909
was sort of going through vintage shops

1403
01:20:25,993 --> 01:20:28,245
and buying this dress.

1404
01:20:28,328 --> 01:20:30,038
I've seen so many women
who are wearing wrap dresses

1405
01:20:30,122 --> 01:20:31,498
and you're like,
"Where did you get that?"

1406
01:20:31,582 --> 01:20:32,708
"Oh, this is my grandmother's."

1407
01:20:32,916 --> 01:20:34,543
[TV presenter 1] In the fashion world,

1408
01:20:34,626 --> 01:20:36,336
everything old
becomes new, eventually.

1409
01:20:36,420 --> 01:20:37,796
[TV presenter 2] The wrap is back.

1410
01:20:37,880 --> 01:20:39,339
[Diane] This is a major déjà vu.

1411
01:20:39,423 --> 01:20:41,884
It's like 20 years later
doing almost the same thing

1412
01:20:41,967 --> 01:20:43,093
with almost the same dress.

1413
01:20:43,510 --> 01:20:47,514
I was 50 years old,
relaunching these dresses

1414
01:20:47,598 --> 01:20:50,017
to a whole cool generation.

1415
01:20:50,100 --> 01:20:55,355
I was totally living
what I had lived when I was their age.

1416
01:20:55,439 --> 01:20:58,358
♪♪

1417
01:20:58,442 --> 01:21:01,320
I thought, I'm too old
to live like old people.

1418
01:21:01,403 --> 01:21:02,946
I need something fresher.

1419
01:21:06,116 --> 01:21:09,995
I found this carriage house
on West 12th Street

1420
01:21:10,078 --> 01:21:12,539
in the middle of butchers.

1421
01:21:12,623 --> 01:21:14,666
I mean, my son was horrified.

1422
01:21:14,750 --> 01:21:17,252
You know, you find needles in the morning.

1423
01:21:17,753 --> 01:21:19,963
It was a pretty bad neighborhood.

1424
01:21:21,298 --> 01:21:24,676
Now, of course, I didn't listen
to anybody and I bought it.

1425
01:21:24,760 --> 01:21:25,886
Come up.

1426
01:21:25,969 --> 01:21:31,099
I turned it into
a showroom, office, studio,

1427
01:21:31,183 --> 01:21:34,478
and then I bought
the carriage house next door

1428
01:21:35,229 --> 01:21:38,190
and I turned it into this big event space,

1429
01:21:38,273 --> 01:21:40,943
and I would have all kinds of events.

1430
01:21:41,360 --> 01:21:44,154
I became
the godmother of that neighborhood.

1431
01:21:45,322 --> 01:21:47,699
[Nathan] Her fashion shows
were a bit like a happening.

1432
01:21:48,700 --> 01:21:50,702
It was always an interesting mix
of people like, you know,

1433
01:21:50,786 --> 01:21:53,080
there would be some
va-va-voom celebrities.

1434
01:21:53,163 --> 01:21:56,333
There would be a lot of
kind of New York characters.

1435
01:21:57,000 --> 01:22:00,170
And it became like this huge event.

1436
01:22:01,839 --> 01:22:03,465
It was incredible.

1437
01:22:04,299 --> 01:22:05,801
I don't think we ever

1438
01:22:05,884 --> 01:22:08,595
intended for that to happen,
it just happened.

1439
01:22:11,056 --> 01:22:13,934
[Diane] We had a lot of fashion shows
all over the world.

1440
01:22:15,102 --> 01:22:17,354
We opened in London,
and we opened in Paris,

1441
01:22:17,437 --> 01:22:18,730
and we opened everywhere.

1442
01:22:20,440 --> 01:22:23,777
At that time, I was a visionary again.

1443
01:22:23,861 --> 01:22:25,404
♪♪

1444
01:22:25,487 --> 01:22:29,616
From the loser, the nobody,
I was a visionary again.

1445
01:22:41,044 --> 01:22:43,839
I'm thinking about our future, right?

1446
01:22:43,922 --> 01:22:45,883
That's what I think about every day.

1447
01:22:47,509 --> 01:22:49,219
[indistinct chatter]

1448
01:22:49,303 --> 01:22:51,680
Yeah, this one you like?

1449
01:22:51,763 --> 01:22:54,975
Will the brand continue,
will it stand for something?

1450
01:22:55,058 --> 01:22:56,643
I hope it stands for something.

1451
01:22:56,727 --> 01:23:00,314
This is great, this is super DVF.

1452
01:23:00,397 --> 01:23:02,649
You enlarge it, it's great.

1453
01:23:03,192 --> 01:23:05,194
[Talita] It's her baby,
it'll always be her baby.

1454
01:23:05,277 --> 01:23:08,989
She'll never actually be able to,
to put a foot out the door ever.

1455
01:23:09,072 --> 01:23:12,534
I kind of like that,
but what fabric do you see this,

1456
01:23:12,618 --> 01:23:14,536
to put it with this, the carnation?

1457
01:23:14,620 --> 01:23:16,079
-It's so pretty.
-It's so pretty.

1458
01:23:16,163 --> 01:23:18,165
-[Talita] Here...
-[Diane] This, I love this print.

1459
01:23:18,248 --> 01:23:19,333
[Talita] Yeah, it's my favorite.

1460
01:23:19,416 --> 01:23:21,210
[Diane] I think you could do
another color in that.

1461
01:23:21,293 --> 01:23:23,086
She tries hard,
I can see her that she's trying

1462
01:23:23,170 --> 01:23:25,547
and then, but she, like, has
to come back in and like,

1463
01:23:25,631 --> 01:23:27,633
"Well, I don't like this print,
let's tweak it a little bit."

1464
01:23:27,716 --> 01:23:29,551
It's like a subtle polka dot, so...

1465
01:23:29,635 --> 01:23:31,512
[TV presenter]
Please welcome the president

1466
01:23:31,595 --> 01:23:35,766
of the Council of Fashion Designers
of America, Diane von Furstenberg.

1467
01:23:37,059 --> 01:23:39,895
[Diane] Now, I didn't
call myself a designer

1468
01:23:39,978 --> 01:23:45,234
until I got the lifetime award
from the CFDA.

1469
01:23:45,317 --> 01:23:47,236
[director] Why did it take you so long?

1470
01:23:47,319 --> 01:23:50,989
I don't know, I just thought
by then I had deserved it.

1471
01:23:54,368 --> 01:23:56,119
[Karlie Kloss]
At the time when I first met her,

1472
01:23:56,203 --> 01:23:58,455
she was the president of the CFDA

1473
01:23:58,872 --> 01:24:02,167
and she was already
such a champion and force

1474
01:24:02,251 --> 01:24:05,128
for making sure that models
have the support around them,

1475
01:24:05,212 --> 01:24:08,465
psychologically, physically,
mentally, emotionally.

1476
01:24:09,049 --> 01:24:13,220
I want you to be strong,
I want you to feel sexy.

1477
01:24:13,303 --> 01:24:16,139
I want you to be the woman you want to be.

1478
01:24:16,682 --> 01:24:19,101
I want you to smile and love life.

1479
01:24:19,184 --> 01:24:20,686
[cheering]

1480
01:24:22,104 --> 01:24:25,148
I think the need for women to progress

1481
01:24:25,232 --> 01:24:27,359
for her is more important
than anything else.

1482
01:24:27,442 --> 01:24:30,195
It's just who she is,
it's ingrained in her being.

1483
01:24:31,238 --> 01:24:35,284
[Diane] If I have a voice,
it's a responsibility, it's a duty,

1484
01:24:35,367 --> 01:24:39,413
it's an obligation
to try to make that useful.

1485
01:24:41,498 --> 01:24:45,252
Where I am in my life now,

1486
01:24:45,335 --> 01:24:48,964
I wanna be able to put myself
at the service of women.

1487
01:24:53,427 --> 01:24:54,428
Okay.

1488
01:24:54,511 --> 01:24:56,555
[stylist speaking French]

1489
01:24:56,638 --> 01:24:58,473
[speaking French]

1490
01:25:01,560 --> 01:25:03,395
[line rings]

1491
01:25:03,478 --> 01:25:05,105
[Tatiana] [on phone] Hey.

1492
01:25:05,189 --> 01:25:06,732
-[Diane] Tats?
-[Tatiana] Hello.

1493
01:25:06,815 --> 01:25:11,695
[Diane] Hi, darling, so I am,
I am doing my makeup now. So...

1494
01:25:11,778 --> 01:25:13,864
[Tatiana] Okay, so you're
about to go do the awards?

1495
01:25:13,947 --> 01:25:18,035
Uh, yes, and I want your blessing.

1496
01:25:20,329 --> 01:25:24,291
[Tatiana] Okay, well,
just remember to be present,

1497
01:25:24,374 --> 01:25:26,543
-one person at a time...
-Nice.

1498
01:25:26,627 --> 01:25:29,880
[Tatiana] ...just by putting it together,
you've already done your job.

1499
01:25:30,339 --> 01:25:31,465
Be the vessel.

1500
01:25:31,548 --> 01:25:33,842
-Okay, so present.
-[Tatiana] So...

1501
01:25:34,927 --> 01:25:36,929
Yeah, just stay present--

1502
01:25:37,012 --> 01:25:40,265
And be the,
and be the vessel, wonderful,

1503
01:25:40,349 --> 01:25:42,559
I love you. I love you, Tats, merci.

1504
01:25:42,643 --> 01:25:43,977
[speaking French]

1505
01:25:44,061 --> 01:25:45,145
[kisses]

1506
01:25:45,938 --> 01:25:47,814
I speak to my children every day,

1507
01:25:48,565 --> 01:25:51,360
probably twice a day, at least.

1508
01:25:52,528 --> 01:25:56,323
They've known me since I was 23, 24, so...

1509
01:25:57,866 --> 01:26:01,703
You know, I am a feminist,
I've always been a feminist,

1510
01:26:02,329 --> 01:26:06,708
and I, I have enormous faith in women.

1511
01:26:06,792 --> 01:26:08,585
[speaking French]

1512
01:26:10,295 --> 01:26:11,296
Yeah?

1513
01:26:11,380 --> 01:26:14,049
My role is just helping connect, expand,

1514
01:26:14,132 --> 01:26:15,843
inspire, and advocate.

1515
01:26:15,926 --> 01:26:18,971
[crowd applauding]

1516
01:26:19,054 --> 01:26:22,808
The DVF award started in 2010.

1517
01:26:23,225 --> 01:26:28,772
Since then, we have honored
66 incredible women,

1518
01:26:28,856 --> 01:26:35,112
badass women leaders in 186 countries.

1519
01:26:35,487 --> 01:26:38,448
[cheering and applause]

1520
01:26:38,532 --> 01:26:42,536
Like these women, my mother demonstrated

1521
01:26:42,911 --> 01:26:47,749
that she had the courage to fight,
the strength to survive,

1522
01:26:47,833 --> 01:26:50,002
and the leadership to inspire.

1523
01:26:52,629 --> 01:26:54,756
[Nadia Murad] Both of us have been
inspired by our mothers.

1524
01:26:55,340 --> 01:26:59,261
So when she told me about her mother,

1525
01:26:59,344 --> 01:27:02,764
I just, you know,
felt so connected to her.

1526
01:27:02,848 --> 01:27:04,308
♪♪

1527
01:27:04,391 --> 01:27:05,392
[indistinct chatter]

1528
01:27:05,475 --> 01:27:11,106
What DVF exemplifies is a desire

1529
01:27:11,190 --> 01:27:13,775
to lift other women up in every way.

1530
01:27:14,735 --> 01:27:17,654
It's deeply personal and real for her

1531
01:27:17,738 --> 01:27:21,825
to make life better for women
who have no voice,

1532
01:27:21,909 --> 01:27:24,286
for women who are unseen.

1533
01:27:24,369 --> 01:27:25,537
[inaudible dialogue]

1534
01:27:25,621 --> 01:27:28,665
I was very lost, uh, when I met Diane.

1535
01:27:28,749 --> 01:27:31,126
She was the first person who didn't see me

1536
01:27:31,210 --> 01:27:33,504
as a victim of the war.

1537
01:27:33,587 --> 01:27:37,841
Sometimes she just randomly
reaches out and says,

1538
01:27:38,258 --> 01:27:39,801
"How are you, darling?"

1539
01:27:41,345 --> 01:27:44,139
And that means a lot.

1540
01:27:44,223 --> 01:27:45,974
[inaudible dialogue]

1541
01:27:46,892 --> 01:27:49,520
[Hillary] She gets it, you know,
she gets the struggles

1542
01:27:49,603 --> 01:27:52,272
that women are facing across the world,

1543
01:27:52,356 --> 01:27:53,857
and I think she's made a real difference.

1544
01:27:55,859 --> 01:27:57,778
You could look at Diane,
oh, everything's perfect,

1545
01:27:57,861 --> 01:28:00,614
she married the right people,
she had these beautiful children.

1546
01:28:00,697 --> 01:28:02,449
Her life, she's famous, she's gorgeous.

1547
01:28:03,408 --> 01:28:07,162
But you have to look
at what has created that.

1548
01:28:07,246 --> 01:28:09,748
And in her case,
it's a story of her mother.

1549
01:28:55,419 --> 01:28:58,505
Being in charge
is a commitment to yourself.

1550
01:29:00,883 --> 01:29:03,093
[♪ gentle piano music playing]

1551
01:29:07,973 --> 01:29:10,726
From the minute I was 22,
I worked, I got pregnant,

1552
01:29:10,809 --> 01:29:12,561
I got married, I never stopped.

1553
01:29:13,979 --> 01:29:16,315
If this is my third act starting,

1554
01:29:16,398 --> 01:29:19,902
if I am now beginning
the winter of my life,

1555
01:29:20,694 --> 01:29:25,073
I don't know how long
of a winter I will have,

1556
01:29:25,657 --> 01:29:31,663
but I hope I will have a winter
where I can have an impact.

1557
01:29:32,039 --> 01:29:34,416
-Talita.
-Talita, that's good.

1558
01:29:34,499 --> 01:29:37,044
The, uh, Leon, the head of the table.

1559
01:29:37,127 --> 01:29:38,795
-[Barry] That's nice.
-Vito, and then Ken.

1560
01:29:38,879 --> 01:29:41,006
-Okay, you like my placement?
-Your placement's...

1561
01:29:41,089 --> 01:29:42,257
[Diane] [in French] Placement.

1562
01:29:42,341 --> 01:29:45,010
[Barry] I said placement,
or did I say placement?

1563
01:29:45,093 --> 01:29:46,094
[Diane] Placement.

1564
01:29:46,178 --> 01:29:47,179
[Barry] Whatever.

1565
01:29:47,888 --> 01:29:50,224
[Diane] I don't really like
the word "retired,"

1566
01:29:50,307 --> 01:29:53,268
but now it's about legacy.

1567
01:29:53,602 --> 01:29:55,521
I mean, what have I left behind?

1568
01:29:56,480 --> 01:29:59,066
The biggest thing
I've left behind is my family.

1569
01:29:59,149 --> 01:30:00,692
Hi!

1570
01:30:00,776 --> 01:30:04,154
-Oh, you are wearing a watch.
-Really?

1571
01:30:04,238 --> 01:30:05,531
Yours.

1572
01:30:05,614 --> 01:30:07,824
I know, I know, and what did
I write in the back?

1573
01:30:08,242 --> 01:30:13,121
"Leon, enjoy every moment
of your life, love DD, 2019."

1574
01:30:13,205 --> 01:30:15,165
-Right, isn't that adorable?
-Yep.

1575
01:30:15,582 --> 01:30:18,293
[Diane] They will continue my life.

1576
01:30:19,336 --> 01:30:22,798
Just like I continued for my mother
and I continued for my grandmother.

1577
01:30:22,881 --> 01:30:24,299
-Hi.
-Hey.

1578
01:30:25,008 --> 01:30:26,218
[Diane moans]

1579
01:30:26,301 --> 01:30:28,387
You're the sweetest, the best.

1580
01:30:28,470 --> 01:30:29,847
You came first.

1581
01:30:30,597 --> 01:30:32,808
-You just, you just deliver.
-On time. [chuckles]

1582
01:30:33,392 --> 01:30:34,393
Hi.

1583
01:30:34,935 --> 01:30:37,855
[Diane exclaims] Oh...

1584
01:30:37,938 --> 01:30:40,357
[both speaking French]

1585
01:30:46,947 --> 01:30:50,117
[Diane] No, it was a movie,
it was Love...

1586
01:30:50,200 --> 01:30:51,743
-Love...
-Love Actually.

1587
01:30:52,911 --> 01:30:54,663
[Diane] The adventure of...

1588
01:30:55,831 --> 01:30:58,458
my own life has been incredible,

1589
01:30:59,168 --> 01:31:02,045
and I would like my life to be useful,

1590
01:31:02,129 --> 01:31:04,381
not only to my family

1591
01:31:05,549 --> 01:31:08,510
or to my work, but also to others.

1592
01:31:09,052 --> 01:31:13,724
Somehow my life has been a conduit.

1593
01:31:13,807 --> 01:31:15,350
For whatever reason,

1594
01:31:15,434 --> 01:31:20,147
I had a voice very, very early on.

1595
01:31:20,522 --> 01:31:24,026
And therefore, I have used that voice

1596
01:31:24,693 --> 01:31:26,195
to the best I could.

1597
01:31:31,783 --> 01:31:33,535
[breathing heavily]

1598
01:31:34,203 --> 01:31:37,122
So it's not finished on purpose

1599
01:31:37,706 --> 01:31:41,919
because I don't wanna be finished
until somebody goes in.

1600
01:31:45,464 --> 01:31:47,132
[director] So where are we going?

1601
01:31:47,216 --> 01:31:49,092
[Diane] In, in the cemetery.

1602
01:31:50,219 --> 01:31:51,845
My resting place...

1603
01:31:52,888 --> 01:31:54,848
where I will become a mushroom.

1604
01:31:59,561 --> 01:32:01,688
[birds cawing]

1605
01:32:03,649 --> 01:32:05,609
This is where I come every day.

1606
01:32:09,738 --> 01:32:11,698
[director] Now why do you
come here every day?

1607
01:32:12,491 --> 01:32:14,701
Because it's so reassuring.

1608
01:32:15,452 --> 01:32:17,371
It's such a good spot.

1609
01:32:17,454 --> 01:32:21,250
Sunset goes there, peaceful.

1610
01:32:23,627 --> 01:32:25,462
[director] Do you think
about death often?

1611
01:32:25,546 --> 01:32:26,672
All the time.

1612
01:32:27,047 --> 01:32:28,549
All the time.

1613
01:32:28,632 --> 01:32:30,217
But always have.

1614
01:32:31,176 --> 01:32:32,928
But with zero fear.

1615
01:32:35,138 --> 01:32:37,140
They say, uh...

1616
01:32:37,558 --> 01:32:41,478
"Life is a journey
and death is the destination."

1617
01:32:41,979 --> 01:32:44,022
So we die for sure.

1618
01:32:44,106 --> 01:32:47,276
So I can't even understand
people who don't think about it.

1619
01:32:47,359 --> 01:32:49,486
But my husband,
he doesn't wanna think about it.

1620
01:32:51,321 --> 01:32:54,616
I don't think I could live
without thinking that I could die anytime,

1621
01:32:54,700 --> 01:32:57,494
because that allows me
to have more gratitude

1622
01:32:58,954 --> 01:33:00,664
and to enjoy life.

1623
01:33:05,335 --> 01:33:07,045
You see, you'll come and visit me here.

1624
01:33:10,924 --> 01:33:12,259
[chuckles]

1625
01:33:12,634 --> 01:33:15,721
[♪ "She's A Rainbow"
by The Rolling Stones playing]

1626
01:33:23,187 --> 01:33:26,064
♪♪

1627
01:33:31,737 --> 01:33:34,281
♪ She comes in colors everywhere ♪

1628
01:33:34,698 --> 01:33:36,325
♪ She combs her hair ♪

1629
01:33:36,825 --> 01:33:39,953
♪ She's like a rainbow ♪

1630
01:33:40,621 --> 01:33:42,998
♪ Coming, colors in the air ♪

1631
01:33:43,707 --> 01:33:45,209
♪ Oh, everywhere ♪

1632
01:33:46,043 --> 01:33:49,922
♪ She comes in colors ♪

1633
01:33:53,800 --> 01:33:55,886
♪ Have you seen her all in gold? ♪

1634
01:33:58,263 --> 01:34:00,682
♪ Like a queen in days of old ♪

1635
01:34:02,434 --> 01:34:04,895
♪ She shoots colors all around ♪

1636
01:34:04,978 --> 01:34:06,605
♪ Like a sunset going down ♪

1637
01:34:06,688 --> 01:34:09,900
♪ Have you seen a lady fairer? ♪

1638
01:34:11,026 --> 01:34:13,695
♪ She comes in colors everywhere ♪

1639
01:34:14,154 --> 01:34:16,323
♪ She combs her hair ♪

1640
01:34:16,406 --> 01:34:18,909
♪ She's like a rainbow ♪

1641
01:34:20,160 --> 01:34:22,829
♪ Coming, colors in the air ♪

1642
01:34:22,913 --> 01:34:24,540
♪ Oh, everywhere ♪

1643
01:34:25,082 --> 01:34:28,418
♪ She comes in colors ♪

1644
01:34:28,502 --> 01:34:30,587
[♪ scatting]

1645
01:34:32,923 --> 01:34:34,132
[♪ song ends]

1646
01:34:36,468 --> 01:34:39,137
[♪ gentle music playing]

1647
01:35:16,508 --> 01:35:18,802
♪♪

1648
01:35:31,398 --> 01:35:32,941
[♪ music fades]

1649
01:35:34,234 --> 01:35:36,236
[♪ bright peppy music playing]

1650
01:36:12,022 --> 01:36:14,691
♪♪

1651
01:36:34,086 --> 01:36:36,547
♪♪

1652
01:37:11,415 --> 01:37:12,791
[♪ music fades out]