Alexandra von Fürstenberg

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

Early life

She is the youngest daughter of the American-born Duty Free shops businessman Robert Warren Miller and his Ecuadorian wife, the former María Clara "Chantal" Pesantes Becerra. She has two siblings, Pia Getty and Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece, Princess of Denmark. 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.

Career

Alexandra worked for Diane von Furstenberg’s company as an image director.^[2]

In 2007, she formed her contemporary furniture company, Alexandra Von Furstenberg LLC, designing a line of modern acrylic furniture.^[3]

Personal life

On 28 October 1995, at the Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola in New York City, she married Prince Alexander von Fürstenberg (b. 1970), brother of Princess Tatiana von Fürstenberg and the only son of the fashion designers Diane von Fürstenberg and Prince Egon von Fürstenberg and a great-grandson of Giovanni Agnelli, the founder of Fiat.^[4] The couple had two children, Princess Talita Natasha (b. 7 May 1999) and Prince Tassilo Egon Maximilian (b. New York, New York County, New York, 26 August 2001), who is named for his paternal great-grandfather. They separated in 2002 and later divorced.

Titles

• Miss Alexandra Miller
• Her Serene Highness Princess Alexandra von Fürstenberg

References

External links

• http://www.wargs.com/royal/miller.html Some ancestry of the Miller sisters by Julie Helen Otto and William Addams Reitwiesner
• Alexandra von Furstenberg talks about fashion