Alexandra von Fürstenberg

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Alexandra von Fürstenberg
Born Alexandra Natasha Miller
October 3, 1972 (1972-10-03) (age 35)
New York City, New York
Occupation Image Director for DvF

Alexandra von Fürstenberg (née Alexandra Natasha Miller) (born October 3, 1972, New York City) is the image director for DvF, the clothing label which was founded by her former mother in law, Diane von Furstenberg, and helped revive the company’s famous 1970s wrap dress.

She is the youngest daughter of the American-born Duty Free Shops billionaire Robert Warren Miller and his Ecuador-born wife, the former María Clara "Chantal" Pesantes Becerra. She has two siblings, Pia Getty and Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece. The troika is popularly known as The Miller Sisters.

Alexandra Miller was raised in Hong Kong, Paris and New York and studied fashion and art history at the Parsons School of Design and Brown University.

On 28 October 1995, at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City, she married Alexandre Egon von Fürstenberg (b. 1970), the only son of the fashion designers Diane von Fürstenberg and Prince Egon von Fürstenberg and a great-grandson of Giovanni Agnelli, a founder of Fiat.[1] The couple had two children, Talita Natasha (b. 7 May 1999) and Tassilo Egon Maximilian (b. 26 August 2001), who is named for his paternal great-grandfather. They separated in 2002 and later divorced.

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  1. ^ Carey Goldberg, "Quiet High-Society Wedding Is a Spectacle for Gawkers", The New York Times, 29 October 1995