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Eos is one of the world’s largest and most famous sailing yachts and a record-breaker until the 2017 arrival of Oceanco’s Black Pearl, a stunning sailing masterpiece that is believed to have inspired the construction of the future record-breaker, Jeff Bezos’ Y721. Whenever Eos makes an appearance in public, much like a superstar, it draws attention and makes headlines, yet, for all this, it remains an enigma.

Here is an attempt to lift the veil as much as possible on this enigma, a $200 million vessel that is said to be the epitome of luxury, elegance and, not in the least important, outstanding design. After all, you don’t become an icon (enigma or not) by conforming to standards.

Eos is named after the Greek goddess of dawn, the daughter of titans Hyperion and Theia, and sister of the sun god and the moon goddess. Eos is a sailing yacht, a three-mast Bermuda-rigged schooner that relies on a couple of MTU 4000-series engines for outstanding performance, regardless of the wind conditions. At full throttle, Eos can hit top speeds of 16 knots (18 mph / 29.5 kph).

Built by luxury shipyard  Lurssen  on a Lurssen naval architecture, an exterior design by Bill Langan, and interiors by Francois Catroux, Eos was delivered in 2006, after a three-year construction phase. Since delivery, it has had one single owner and he’s been keeping it a secret on purpose, as it serves as the family yacht.

That owner is billionaire media mogul Barry Diller, known as  “Diller killer”  in the industry because of his exceptional negotiation skills. He is married to fashion designer (and icon in her own right) Diane von Furstenberg, who is often erroneously referred to as the owner. Together, the two have an estimated net worth of $5.2 billion as of 2022, which means that, yes, they can definitely afford a $200 million vessel, as well as keep it a secret from the public by not chartering it.

At 93 meters (305 feet) in total length, Eos is among the top 5% yachts in the world by LOA. The fact that it’s a sailing vessel would have been enough to draw all eyes to it at port, but the three 61-meter (200-foot) masts make it an unforgettable sight, as does the deep dark blue hull. Eos has a teak deck, an aluminum hull, and aluminum superstructure. Much of the superstructure was repaired after an extensive fire in 2012, when the ship was at harbor while Diller and von Furstenberg were visiting ashore.

A later refit program, throughout 2018 and 2019, was even more extensive: the Rodal rigs were removed, repaired and repainted, the hull and superstructure were repainted, the tank arrangement was reorganized and the engines were overhauled. Onboard systems like the treatment unit and the watermaker were also serviced then, and navigation systems were brought up to speed with state-of-the-art equipment.

With an interior volume of 1,500 GT, Eos offers accommodation for 14 guests across seven suites and a crew of 21 – a necessarily high number because sailing it is no single-man job. Eos was never offered for charter, though legend has it that it has hosted some of the biggest stars in the world, including Jeff Bezos on his final week as Amazon CEO in 2021, singer and actor Harry Styles, and television host and reality star producer Andy Cohen.

Because it’s always been used privately, details on the interior are as scarce as photos of the same, but again, legend has it that features a viewing lounge with panoramic views, a jacuzzi, a 4.2-meter (14-foot) mural of the world map, and a most glamorous staircase made of glass. A 2.7-meter (9-foot) tall sculpture by Anh Duong, showing Diane von Furstenberg, graces Eos as figurehead. von Furstenberg usually posts to social while onboard Eos during summer-long journeys, but she always makes sure her photos don’t show much of the interior.

In 2009, when Eos pulled into an Australian port for some maintenance work, captain Lucas Alexander told the local  media  that sailing Eos felt like living in a high-end villa at sea. He also said that the vessel never traveled by a preset itinerary, which, if true, probably helps with keeping it a mystery.

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Diane von Fürstenberg picks up on the first ring. We are speaking by phone, not on Zoom, so I start by asking her where she is at the moment. “Oh, it’s very complicated,” she says. A drawn-out, gravelly sigh crackles down the line. “I’m in a very contemplative place. I’m almost 77, and I have had a big life. A folkloric life. A great adventure. And now it is time to look at the balance sheet of that life.”

I was actually wondering about her geographical whereabouts, not her philosophical ones, but the answer is pure Von Fürstenberg. She has always been one for the big picture, for the grand gesture, for feeling all the feels. Even the wrap dress which made her fame and her fortune – an icon which turns 50 next year – was only ever a means to an end, a way for Von Fürstenberg to get the life she wanted. As a little girl, she says, she didn’t know what she wanted to do when she grew up, but she did know what kind of woman she wanted to be. And that was a woman in charge. “I didn’t know the specifics of what that meant, but I absolutely knew the feeling. And I became the woman I wanted to be, because of that dress. I created the dress, but really the dress created me.”

Von Fürstenberg is very much in charge. She can’t help but take the reins of any situation, or any conversation, which makes her almost uninterviewable, but fabulously entertaining to listen to. Eventually, I find out that she is talking to me from her apartment in Manhattan, a glittering glass penthouse with a vast leopard-print carpet and views over the High Line. I’m sad not to get her on camera, because she is glorious to look at: Joan Collins-esque panache with a Bohemian edge. I saw her in the flesh not long ago, and the most photographed cheekbones of the 1970s, as per the New York Times, are still in full effect. “It is wonderful to get older,” she says. “I don’t understand why people don’t like it. Anyway, I always liked to look a little bit destroyed, you know?”

She has been packing a suitcase to take with her to Thanksgiving weekend with her family at Cloudwalk, the Connecticut estate she bought herself for her 27th birthday, when the cheques started rolling in. From there, she will travel to Oxfordshire for Voices, a conference run by The Business of Fashion , where she will be in conversation with the Pakistani-Canadian film-maker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, the first woman and the first person of colour to direct a Star Wars film (her as yet untitled movie is due for release in 2026), who recently finished a documentary about Von Fürstenberg’s life.

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In an industry where most trends are lucky to survive for six months, how does one dress last half a century? “That dress is a survivor because it gives a woman the body language of confidence,” she says. “The tricks of dressmaking are about how a woman feels.” Von Fürstenberg never studied design, but learned the craft of fabric, colour and print in the Italian factories of garment maker Angelo Ferretti in her early 20s. One day, she took a trip to the US to visit her new boyfriend, Prince Egon von Fürstenberg, who she had met at a nightclub in Geneva, and discovered New York. “When I got back to the factory, all I could think about was how to get back to America. So I made some samples and I went back to New York with a suitcase full of little dresses. They were sexy, but proper. Someone said to me, ‘It’s a dress you can get a man in, and his mother doesn’t mind.’”

The secret, she says, is the fabric. “I remember Christian Lacroix once said to me, ‘Women make clothes, men make costume.’ Male designers don’t like jersey because it’s not particularly beautiful to look at, but when you wear it, you understand the value of it, of how it feels and how it works on the body.” Von Fürstenberg, like Donna Karan, Coco Chanel and Sonia Rykiel, knows that jersey, unprepossessing on the hanger, grows beloved in the wardrobe.

Survival is at the heart of Belgium-born Von Fürstenberg’s story. Her mother, Liliane Halfin, was taken to Auschwitz on a cattle train at 21, and later moved to Ravensbrück. When liberation came 13 months later, “She was a bag of bones in a field of ashes”. Hospitalised at a nearby American base, doctors did not expect her to live, let alone go on to have children. But, reunited with her fiance, she married, and gave birth to Von Fürstenberg within 18 months. “I was born so close to being liberated that I consider myself a survivor, too,” she says. “My birth was a triumph of love over misery. That is my flag. My mother used to call me her torch of freedom, and she wanted me to have a big life.” The legacy sounds like a lot for a little girl to handle. Her mother would bless her bed every night: thankful for the sheets, the blanket, the pillow and the warmth, after sleeping on a wooden plank shared with rats in the concentration camps. When Von Fürstenberg was afraid of the dark, her mother locked her in the closet. “She taught me that fear is not an option.”

In the febrile climate of social media, Von Fürstenberg has faced criticism for expressing sorrow and sympathy for the loss of innocent lives on both sides of the Israel-Hamas war. There are those who feel that anything less than full-blooded support for Israel constitutes a betrayal of her family history. “I am absolutely devastated by what is happening in the world,” she says. “I don’t know what to say. I look for the light, I believe in peace. As a survivor, I have the right to believe in miracles.”

We talk a little more about the horrors of current events, about compassion and humanity and the sense of hopelessness shared by so many, but later, a few minutes after we finish the interview, my phone rings again and it is Von Fürstenberg, concerned about how she phrased her thoughts. “I don’t want to speak out, because there is nothing I can say and I don’t take words lightly,” she says. Her own narrative is a fairytale – the miracle baby of a Holocaust survivor, who grew up beautiful and strong and married a Swiss prince – and this bleak moment is no time for fairytales. She is lost for words.

On any other topic, though, she is anything but. Packing always sharpens her mind, she says. “I have had so many of my best ideas when I was packing. I’ve been packing suitcases all my life, I’m always travelling, and if you know how to pack, you know how to live.” Questions roll off her like water from a duck’s back as she steers her own conversational course. If I interject she says, “Yes, yes, I’m getting to that,” and then never does. It is hard to feel aggrieved, though, because there is never a dull sentence. In the midst of her paean to the wrap dress which carried her to stardom, she mentions that she has never really worn wrap dresses that much herself. “I never felt like I had the waist,” she says, “so I prefer a shirtdress.” Later, enthusing about her forthcoming trip to the UK, she reminisces about her teenage years at boarding school in Oxford. “Oxford was where I discovered nature,” she recalls, “and also where I lost my virginity. I have so many good memories.” I attempt a follow-up question to the virginity story, but too late. She has moved on.

Five decades in a notoriously fickle industry has been a rollercoaster ride. “Every 20 years, the young people discover me again. It’s happened twice already,” she says wryly. The 2000s were boom time, the 2010s saw overexpansion, and when Covid hit in 2020, the DVF brand came close to bankruptcy. “We had grown very big, and I had hundreds of stores, and suddenly I was losing money. I could have sold the brand for a fortune to someone who would have prostituted it. But I didn’t want to do that.” Instead, she closed all but one store in the US and streamlined the business, bolstering finances with a strategic partner in Hong Kong, but keeping majority ownership in the family. A pared-down operation, without messy licensing deals to dilute the brand, is part of what the designer calls “a third rebirth” for the label. Talita von Fürstenberg, who at 24 is the oldest of her five grandchildren, is now co-chair of the company, tasked with bringing the DVF brand to generation Z.

Earlier this year the brand launched a resale platform called ReWrap. Prices range from about £40 to about £300. (A new DVF wrap dress retails for closer to £500.) “The best way for a dress to be sustainable is for it to live for 50 years,” says Von Fürstenberg. “You can find a dress in a vintage store, and it might have lived three lives already, and it will still be in good health, with no holes.” She’s right, by the way: jersey is hard-wearing, and with no fastenings to break and no embellishments to decay, these dresses are virtually indestructible.

The Swiss prince didn’t last, however, although he did give her two children and her last name, and they remained on friendly terms – he died in 2004. Since 2001, she has been married to the billionaire media mogul Barry Diller. As well as New York and Connecticut, they have homes in Beverly Hills – where they recently threw an engagement party for their friends Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez attended by Oprah Winfrey and Barbra Streisand. They also have “a nice boat” (Eos, a 92-metre yacht, from which Diane loves to swim for two hours a day) and a place in Venice, where Von Fürstenberg hopes to spend more time, when her work schedule allows. “Now that I’m in the winter of my life, all the pieces of the puzzle start to make sense. My children call me The Oracle. I have learned many things along the way, and it is time to share that wisdom.” During the pandemic, she wrote Own It: The Secret to Life, which is a sort of manifesto of Von Fürstenberg-isms in the form of a dictionary. (Sample extract: “Ego is a positive outlook on oneself that can easily become an unbearable flaw when abused. See narcissism.”) “I’m proud of that little book, because it’s so useful,” she says. “Do you have children? A girl? What’s her name? That’s a beautiful name. How old is she? I will send you a copy for her …”

Love affairs with Warren Beatty, Omar Sharif and Richard Gere; nights at Studio 54 with Andy Warhol and fellow designer Halston, surviving cancer. Von Fürstenberg has lived quite the life, and she has kept diaries throughout. When I ask if she plans to publish them, she says no. “They are in French,” she adds, as if this closes the topic. Then, she continues: “A diary is a communication with yourself. That’s the most important relationship you will have.” I hope she changes her mind; her memoirs would be a gripping read.

Diane von Fürstenberg is speaking at the Business of Fashion VOICES conference for creative and business industry leaders, which runs from 28-30 November.

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Luxury doesn’t stop once you leave the land, or even at private jets. Behold the celebrity yacht, something the most opulent individuals keep on hand so they can extravagantly take to the seas at a moment’s notice. Some, like Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck or Kylie Jenner , merely charter yachts for a few weeks a year, but others, with a true commitment to the nautical lifestyle, pony up the millions it costs to buy and maintain a massive boat year after year. Below, we detail some of the best and biggest celebrity yachts (and the parties that take place aboard!).

Giorgio Armani

“I want this boat for the rest of my life, or for what remains of it,” Giorgio Armani told British Vogue during their visit to the yacht he meticulously designed himself, known as the Maín . The perfectly polished all black boat, complete with tinted windows throughout, is an impressive antidote to the sea of entirely white yachts at most docks. His previous boat, the Mariù , was equally as stylish, and he welcomed AD aboard in 2003.

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Eos , the yacht of Diane von Furstenberg and her husband Barry Diller, is said to be one of the largest in the world . The couple clearly takes advantage of all that room—just take the well documented trip to Tahiti they took with Anderson Cooper, Alison Williams, Bradley Cooper, Irina Shayk, and Andy Cohen, among others, as proof.

It’s no surprise that multibillionaire Jeff Bezos has a yacht of his own. The Amazon founder’s $500 million boat is on track to be ready this June, years after he commissioned it in 2018 . Bezos has recently faced backlash for requesting that a bridge in Rotterdam, Netherlands, be dismantled so his massive yacht can pass through the town later this year.

Andrea Bocelli

The lavish lifestyle of opera star Andrea Bocelli wouldn’t be complete without a yacht. The star singer has owned eight different vessels over the last two decades, and in 2018 he replaced his 72-foot Gamma 22 Libertas with an 86-foot-long Darwin 86 called the Stella del Nord .

Tiger Woods

The Privacy.

According to Golf , Tiger Woods’s yacht Privacy is something of a second home to the athlete, who sleeps on board when he’s away from home at major championship tournaments. Nine other guests could easily sleep on the boat, and enjoy the jacuzzi, wet bar, and decompression chamber.

Just six months after buying a $2 million mini yacht, the Wajer 55s, Tom Brady spent $6 million on the Wajer 77, with a sleeping capacity of nine, more than double the first boat’s capacity. “I think the 77 will be a little more suited for what we need it for down here, which is a few more day trips and weekend trips,” Brady said in a video announcing the Wajer 77. “We spend a lot of time in the Bahamas, so going from the east coast of Florida across into the Bahamas and around the Bahamas would be really great trips for us as a family.”

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The Rising Sun.  

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Billionaire movie and music produce r David Geffen’s $590 million yacht, the Rising Sun , easily trumps Jeff Bezos’s and the parties Geffen’s thrown onboard rival those that Diane von Fursternberg has hosted. The Obamas, Steven Spielberg, JJ Abrams, Oprah , and Julia Roberts are among the many big names who’ve rode on the Rising Sun , which reportedly counts a double-height cinema and basketball court among its list of luxurious amenities.

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Appropriate for the designer known for his love of red, white, and blue, Tommy Hilfiger’s yacht is named the Flag . Hilfiger has owned the boat which he calls his “most prized possession” for five years now, and over that time, he’s added his Americana-inspired touch to the classy interiors that were designed by Chahan Minassian.

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The 2023 superyacht summer recap: Jeff Bezos is now king of the high seas

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Jeff Bezos made headlines in 2019 for a rare appearance partying at sea on David Geffen's yacht, the Rising Sun , with ex-Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and model Karlie Kloss.

Four years later, Bezos is no longer Amazon's CEO, and he's spent the last few months earning a new title: king of the high seas. As 2023's yacht season comes to a close, it's clear that Bezos' brand new $500 million superyacht won the summer.

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But Bezos and his superyacht guests appear undaunted by coverage of their travels.

Bezos named his megaboat Koru, after a Maori symbol of growth (perhaps a reference to being the world's largest sailing yacht at 417 feet long) and new beginnings.

Koru took its maiden voyage to Gibraltar in April, and a flurry of photographed stops followed: In May, a shirtless Bezos and his now-fiancee Lauren Sanchez — who has a striking resemblance to the sculpture on Koru's bow — took the yacht for a spin off the coast of Spain, before sailing it to the Cannes Film Festival.

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In June, Koru made its way to the Italian Riviera , where the couple posed for photos on the ship's deck. Then it stopped by the Italian island Capri, before posting up at nearby Positano, a cliffside town that's become a favorite of celebrities and travel influencers.

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There, the yacht played host to an engagement party for Bezos and Sanchez , which reportedly drew guests including Bill Gates, Whitney Wolfe Herd, Ari Emanuel, and Leonardo DiCaprio. Just a week later, the couple was seen strolling the streets of Dubrovnik, Croatia, with Orlando Bloom, Katy Perry, and Usher.

Yacht season's runner-up: billionaire Barry Diller's Eos

Another highlight of this year's yacht season was the 305 foot-long Eos, owned by billionaire Barry Diller and fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, which also had a busy summer criss-crossing the Mediterranean. 

A staple of superyacht season, Eos' 2023 summer schedule included an early stop in Mallorca , where Diller and von Furstenberg hiked with Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King; a trip to Greece where von Furstenberg visited with British Vogue editor Edward Enninful and Valentino cofounder Valentino Giancarlo Giammetti; and a stop on the Amalfi Coast where von Furstenberg snagged a picture with Kris Jenner.

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In August, the ship made its way to Croatia, where its owners dined with Hollywood A-listers Candice Bergen, Emma Thompson, and Jason Blum, as well as Diane Sawyer and Creative Artists Agency partner Bryan Lourd.

The Eos docked in Venice to end its summer season, where von Furstenberg hosted the annual DVF Awards — and began furnishing one of her dry-land residences.

Not too far away in Venice's harbor was Maìn, Giorgio Armani's yacht, on which he hosted guests like Sydney Sweeney and Kerry Washington as part of his One Night Only fashion event earlier this month.

Many of the world's other famous superyachts — and the folks who frequent them — appear to have largely avoided the public eye this summer. 

"In a world of long-lens constant paparazzi, there is a place for relaxed privacy that many of us take for granted," a longtime superyacht employee, who requested anonymity to speak candidly, recently told Insider.

That's likely the privacy that Geffen is enjoying on the Rising Sun, the yacht where Bezos was photographed a few summers ago — and on which Geffen infamously self-isolated in March 2020. 

While the ship has been keeping a low profile this yacht season, it's reportedly been spotted in Capri and Mallorca , though without its typical celebrity entourage on board. Most recently it made a splash in a place not typically known for attracting the world's most expensive crafts: Portland, Maine.

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Chrissy Teigen and Diane von Furstenberg Are Ringing In Yacht Season

Finally, the time we’ve all been waiting for is here. Yacht season has arrived, and there has been no shortage of celebrities flexing on Instagram about all of their escapades on private boats at sea. Diane von Furstenberg , for example, has been living her best life on her husband Barry Diller’s yacht, Eos. The same goes for Miles Theodore Stephens—son of Chrissy Teigen and John Legend—who appears to be racking up quite the yacht knots in his first year of life while on a family summer vacation in Portofino. It just goes to show that no matter your age, it’s nearly impossible to resist a nautical moment. And summer isn’t the only time of year for yachting—technically, any time you find yourself on a yacht (or just a large private boat in general) is the right time to declare as yacht season. Here, a collection of all of your favorite celebrities’ seaside escapades.

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend’s son, Miles Theodore Stephens, spent his Independence Day in Portofino.

Diane von Furstenberg and Barry Diller spend their summers on his Eos yacht.

David Geffen, another notable yacht owner, posed for a photo on his yacht with Chris Rock and Megalyn Echikunwoke in Mallorca.

Kate Hudson and her newborn baby Rani spent some family vacation time on a boat on the Amalfi Coast in June 2019.

In a birthday tribute to Jack Brinkley Cook, Nina Agdal shared a snap of their vacation in June 2019.

The Biebers shared a snap of their vacation together in March 2019.

Britney Spears and Sam Asghari shared a photo of themselves vacationing on a private boat in Miami in June 2019.

For this stop of the Wade World Tour, Gabrielle Union posed on a private boat in Mykonos in May 2019.

Kourtney Kardashian snacked on a private boat in Portofino in May 2019.

Ed Sheeran, avid reader, reclined with a book on a private boat in January 2019.

Cardi B posed in front of a private boat’s empty hot tub for a sunset Instagram photo in March 2019.

The Chopra-Turner-Jonas family joined forces on a private boat in Miami in March 2019.

Katharine McPhee celebrated her marriage to David Foster with a honeymoon in Mykonos in June 2019.

Caroline Vreeland out to see in June 2014.

Jen Atkin posed on a private boat in Portofino in July 2019.

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Barry Diller Fast Facts

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(CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of media mogul Barry Diller.

Birth date: February 2, 1942

Birth place: San Francisco, California

Birth name: Barry Charles Diller

Father: Michael Diller, real estate developer

Mother: Reva (Addison) Diller

Marriage: Diane von Furstenberg (2001-present)

Education: Attended University of California, Los Angeles

Other Facts

Dropped out of UCLA after less than a year.

Credited with popularizing made-for-television movies.

Owner of the sailing yacht Eos, one of the world’s largest private sailing yachts.

Married fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg in 2001, 26 years after they first met.

Diller has stated that he considers von Furstenberg’s children, Alexander and Tatiana, as his own.

Is on the board of directors of The Coca Cola Company.

1961-1966 – Works at the William Morris Agency. Diller starts in the mailroom and works his way up to agent.

1966-1974 – Works at ABC, eventually becoming the vice president of prime time television. During this time, Diller creates ABC’s “Movie of the Week.”

1974-1984 – Chairman and chief executive of Paramount Pictures Corporation.

1984-1992 – Chairman and chief executive of Fox, Inc.

1986 – Launches the Fox television network.

1992-1994 – Chief executive officer of the QVC network.

1995-2010 – Chairman and chief executive officer of InterActiveCorp (IAC), formerly Silver King Communications.

2005-present – Chairman and senior executive of Expedia, Inc.

2010-present – Chairman and senior executive of IAC.

November 2014 – Diller and the Diller-Von Furstenberg Family Foundation announce plans to build a park on stilts above the water on the Hudson River in New York City’s Chelsea Pier neighborhood.

June 15, 2015 – A New York civic organization files court documents to prevent further construction on Diller’s planned park. The civic organization raises concerns about the environmental impact the project would have on the city’s waterfront.

October 25, 2017 – Diller announces his intention to move forward with his plan to build a park on the Hudson River. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo helped Diller reach an agreement with environmental groups that opposed the project.

August 14, 2018 – Tinder co-founders and other former and current executives file a lawsuit against Diller’s Match Group and parent company, IAC. The suit, filed in New York, alleges that executives with Match and IAC intentionally undervalued Tinder to deny them of billions of dollars.

August 20, 2020 – MGM Resorts announces that Diller has joined the company’s board of directors, days after Diller’s IAC bought a nearly $1 billion stake in the Las Vegas-based global casino and hotel giant .

May 21, 2021 – Little Island, a park funded by Diller and the Diller-Von Furstenberg Family Foundation, opens to the public.

May 19, 2022 – Diller receives a limited casino license from The Nevada Gaming Commission.

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The tragedy and triumph of Diane von Fürstenberg: ‘My mother taught me fear is not an option’

She was the miracle baby, born after her mother survived the concentration camps, who married a prince, then became rich and famous as a fashion designer. She discusses love, life advice and losing her virginity

D iane von Fürstenberg picks up on the first ring. We are speaking by phone, not on Zoom, so I start by asking her where she is at the moment. “Oh, it’s very complicated,” she says. A drawn-out, gravelly sigh crackles down the line. “I’m in a very contemplative place. I’m almost 77, and I have had a big life. A folkloric life. A great adventure. And now it is time to look at the balance sheet of that life.”

I was actually wondering about her geographical whereabouts, not her philosophical ones, but the answer is pure Von Fürstenberg. She has always been one for the big picture, for the grand gesture, for feeling all the feels. Even the wrap dress which made her fame and her fortune – an icon which turns 50 next year – was only ever a means to an end, a way for Von Fürstenberg to get the life she wanted. As a little girl, she says, she didn’t know what she wanted to do when she grew up, but she did know what kind of woman she wanted to be. And that was a woman in charge. “I didn’t know the specifics of what that meant, but I absolutely knew the feeling. And I became the woman I wanted to be, because of that dress. I created the dress, but really the dress created me.”

Von Fürstenberg is very much in charge. She can’t help but take the reins of any situation, or any conversation, which makes her almost uninterviewable, but fabulously entertaining to listen to. Eventually, I find out that she is talking to me from her apartment in Manhattan, a glittering glass penthouse with a vast leopard-print carpet and views over the High Line. I’m sad not to get her on camera, because she is glorious to look at: Joan Collins-esque panache with a Bohemian edge. I saw her in the flesh not long ago, and the most photographed cheekbones of the 1970s, as per the New York Times, are still in full effect. “It is wonderful to get older,” she says. “I don’t understand why people don’t like it. Anyway, I always liked to look a little bit destroyed, you know?”

She has been packing a suitcase to take with her to Thanksgiving weekend with her family at Cloudwalk, the Connecticut estate she bought herself for her 27th birthday, when the cheques started rolling in. From there, she will travel to Oxfordshire for Voices, a conference run by The Business of Fashion website , where she will be in conversation with the Pakistani-Canadian film-maker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, the first woman and the first person of colour to direct a Star Wars film (her as yet untitled movie is due for release in 2026), who recently finished a documentary about Von Fürstenberg’s life.

In an industry where most trends are lucky to survive for six months, how does one dress last half a century? “That dress is a survivor because it gives a woman the body language of confidence,” she says. “The tricks of dressmaking are about how a woman feels.” Von Fürstenberg never studied design, but learned the craft of fabric, colour and print in the Italian factories of garment maker Angelo Ferretti in her early 20s. One day, she took a trip to the US to visit her new boyfriend, Prince Egon von Fürstenberg, who she had met at a nightclub in Geneva, and discovered New York. “When I got back to the factory, all I could think about was how to get back to America. So I made some samples and I went back to New York with a suitcase full of little dresses. They were sexy, but proper. Someone said to me, ‘It’s a dress you can get a man in, and his mother doesn’t mind.’”

The secret, she says, is the fabric. “I remember Christian Lacroix once said to me, ‘Women make clothes, men make costume.’ Male designers don’t like jersey because it’s not particularly beautiful to look at, but when you wear it, you understand the value of it, of how it feels and how it works on the body.” Von Fürstenberg, like Donna Karan, Coco Chanel and Sonia Rykiel, knows that jersey, unprepossessing on the hanger, grows beloved in the wardrobe.

Survival is at the heart of Belgium-born Von Fürstenberg’s story. Her mother, Liliane Halfin, was taken to Auschwitz on a cattle train at 21, and later moved to Ravensbrück. When liberation came 13 months later, “She was a bag of bones in a field of ashes”. Hospitalised at a nearby American base, doctors did not expect her to live, let alone go on to have children. But, reunited with her fiance, she married, and gave birth to Von Fürstenberg within 18 months. “I was born so close to being liberated that I consider myself a survivor, too,” she says. “My birth was a triumph of love over misery. That is my flag. My mother used to call me her torch of freedom, and she wanted me to have a big life.” The legacy sounds like a lot for a little girl to handle. Her mother would bless her bed every night: thankful for the sheets, the blanket, the pillow and the warmth, after sleeping on a wooden plank shared with rats in the concentration camps. When Von Fürstenberg was afraid of the dark, her mother locked her in the closet. “She taught me that fear is not an option.”

In the febrile climate of social media, Von Fürstenberg has faced criticism for expressing sorrow and sympathy for the loss of innocent lives on both sides of the Israel-Hamas war. There are those who feel that anything less than full-blooded support for Israel constitutes a betrayal of her family history. “I am absolutely devastated by what is happening in the world,” she says. “I don’t know what to say. I look for the light, I believe in peace. As a survivor, I have the right to believe in miracles.”

We talk a little more about the horrors of current events, about compassion and humanity and the sense of hopelessness shared by so many, but later, a few minutes after we finish the interview, my phone rings again and it is Von Fürstenberg, concerned about how she phrased her thoughts. “I don’t want to speak out, because there is nothing I can say and I don’t take words lightly,” she says. Her own narrative is a fairytale – the miracle baby of a Holocaust survivor, who grew up beautiful and strong and married a Swiss-born prince – and this bleak moment is no time for fairytales. She is lost for words.

On any other topic, though, she is anything but. Packing always sharpens her mind, she says. “I have had so many of my best ideas when I was packing. I’ve been packing suitcases all my life, I’m always travelling, and if you know how to pack, you know how to live.” Questions roll off her like water from a duck’s back as she steers her own conversational course. If I interject she says, “Yes, yes, I’m getting to that,” and then never does. It is hard to feel aggrieved, though, because there is never a dull sentence. In the midst of her paean to the wrap dress which carried her to stardom, she mentions that she has never really worn wrap dresses that much herself. “I never felt like I had the waist,” she says, “so I prefer a shirtdress.” Later, enthusing about her forthcoming trip to the UK, she reminisces about her teenage years at boarding school in Oxford. “Oxford was where I discovered nature,” she recalls, “and also where I lost my virginity. I have so many good memories.” I attempt a follow-up question to the virginity story, but too late. She has moved on.

Five decades in a notoriously fickle industry has been a rollercoaster ride. “Every 20 years, the young people discover me again. It’s happened twice already,” she says wryly. The 2000s were boom time, the 2010s saw overexpansion, and when Covid hit in 2020, the DVF brand came close to bankruptcy. “We had grown very big, and I had hundreds of stores, and suddenly I was losing money. I could have sold the brand for a fortune to someone who would have prostituted it. But I didn’t want to do that.” Instead, she closed all but one store in the US and streamlined the business, bolstering finances with a strategic partner in Hong Kong, but keeping majority ownership in the family. A pared-down operation, without messy licensing deals to dilute the brand, is part of what the designer calls “a third rebirth” for the label. Talita von Fürstenberg, who at 24 is the oldest of her five grandchildren, is now co-chair of the company, tasked with bringing the DVF brand to generation Z.

Earlier this year the brand launched a resale platform called ReWrap. Prices range from about £40 to about £300. (A new DVF wrap dress retails for closer to £500.) “The best way for a dress to be sustainable is for it to live for 50 years,” says Von Fürstenberg. “You can find a dress in a vintage store, and it might have lived three lives already, and it will still be in good health, with no holes.” She’s right, by the way: jersey is hard-wearing, and with no fastenings to break and no embellishments to decay, these dresses are virtually indestructible. (My own leopard-print DVF wrap dress is still going strong after 22 years.)

The prince didn’t last, however, although he did give her two children and her last name, and they remained on friendly terms – he died in 2004. Since 2001, she has been married to the billionaire media mogul Barry Diller. As well as New York and Connecticut, they have homes in Beverly Hills – where they recently threw an engagement party for their friends Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez attended by Oprah Winfrey and Barbra Streisand. They also have “a nice boat” (Eos, a 92-metre yacht, from which Diane loves to swim for two hours a day) and a place in Venice, where Von Fürstenberg hopes to spend more time, when her work schedule allows. “Now that I’m in the winter of my life, all the pieces of the puzzle start to make sense. My children call me The Oracle. I have learned many things along the way, and it is time to share that wisdom.” During the pandemic, she wrote Own It: The Secret to Life, which is a sort of manifesto of Von Fürstenberg-isms in the form of a dictionary. (Sample extract: “Ego is a positive outlook on oneself that can easily become an unbearable flaw when abused. See narcissism.”) “I’m proud of that little book, because it’s so useful,” she says. “Do you have children? A girl? What’s her name? That’s a beautiful name. How old is she? I will send you a copy for her …”

Love affairs with Warren Beatty, Omar Sharif and Richard Gere; nights at Studio 54 with Andy Warhol and fellow designer Halston, surviving cancer. Von Fürstenberg has lived quite the life, and she has kept diaries throughout. When I ask if she plans to publish them, she says no. “They are in French,” she adds, as if this closes the topic. Then, she continues: “A diary is a communication with yourself. That’s the most important relationship you will have.” I hope she changes her mind; her memoirs would be a gripping read.

This article was amended on 30 November 2023. An earlier version said that Von Furstenberg married a “Swiss prince”. To clarify: Prince Egon von Fürstenberg was born in Switzerland and but his title derived from from a former family of German nobility.

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Diane von Furstenberg, Candice Bergen, Emma Thompson, and More Get Their Final Yachts In

By Kenzie Bryant

Once again, it’s that time of the year. Labor Day is next week, and so summer’s unofficial close drifts ever closer, lurking beyond the summer horizon, just lying in wait to whisper in your ear that you need to go buy pants and get your life together. Things will soon have a wash of seriousness to them. In will come books, notebooks, sweaters, and a furrowed brow. Out will go skin and frivolous yachts. 

But not yet. There’s still a week, and some smart people seem to be getting their last yachts of the summer in. One last vacation on the books. A final hurrah, a goodbye to all that yachting, at least until next season. Diane von Furstenberg and Barry Diller, card-carrying yachters , invited some friends to their big ship over the weekend. The evidence came from within, a call from inside the house, if you will, as we know about this trip due to an Instagram from the cofounder of a spirits brand, Bruce Bozzi, as spotted by the Daily Mail , and not due to paparazzi. This is all to say, where the trip was is anyone’s guess. My guess? I’m going to say Mallorca. This is based on nothing, except, perhaps, that it seems like a nice place to take a 305-foot superyacht called Eos that’s reportedly worth $200 million . 

The travelers were many. Emma Thompson, Diane Sawyer, and Candice Bergen. If the guest list were to stop there, then von Furstenberg could sell tickets to the cruise. That’s someone’s idea of a dream cruise. That’s maybe my idea of a dream cruise. But there were still more people on the trip. Bozzi and his husband, Creative Artists Agency cochairman Bryan Lourd , plus film producer Jason Blum and his wife, Lauren Schuker, and Ricky Van Veen, CollegeHumor cofounder and Allison Williams ’s ex.

Good for all of them. Smart people. Taking advantage of the last days of yacht season by yachting. Who knows what the fall will bring, what kind of work must get done, which big ideas will have to get thought up. For at least a little longer, one can be amongst friends, brain as smooth as the sea on a calm and breezeless day.  

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