“It’s completely by accident that I ended up here,” says Diane von Furstenberg, perching on a bronze daybed in the piano nobile (the second floor of a palazzo, traditionally where Italian ...

Pam Danziger reports on retail, focused on the luxury consumer market. Diane von Furstenberg has reclaimed control of her eponymous DVF fashion brand from Chinese licensee and distributor Glamel ...

Diane von Furstenberg’s design business was stagnating in the 1980s when she got a call that her mother had had a nervous breakdown in Europe.The breakdown, her mother’s companion said ...