Diane von Furstenberg was working on a new book, "Own It: The Secret to Life," when the pandemic began. Suddenly, the fashion designer's words of wisdom and advice, due to be published in March, seemed more urgent.
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Designing success: Diane von Furstenberg s A to Z book of advice The fashion designer has a new book, called Own It: The Secret To Life, due to be published in March.
Designer Diane von Furstenberg attends the CFDA Awards in Manhattan, New York, U.S., June 5, 2017. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
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Diane von Furstenberg was working on a new book, Own It: The Secret To Life, when the pandemic began. Suddenly, the fashion designer s words of wisdom and advice, due to be published in March, seemed more urgent.
The report – called the State of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – also revealed that just 57% of black fashion industry employees believed that their company was doing enough when it came to racial and gender inclusivity, compared with 77% of their white colleagues. Less than half of black employees believed that inclusivity measures would result in permanent change.
Last year, following the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd at the hands of police and the Black Lives Matter protests, many fashion brands and shops were called to task for the apparent schism between their statements of solidarity and own their issues of structural racism from the shop floor to the executive level.
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Cynthia grew up surrounded by the arts
Cynthia was raised by her parents, Ed and Clementine Rowley, in Illinois her dad was a science teacher, but her mother’s side of the family dabbled in the arts…which likely inspired her love for fashion design. “My mom’s whole side of the family were painters. My grandmother did a lot of self-portraits like this [upstairs] painting,” Cynthia told the New York Times. “She always wore Chinese dresses like that, even though she was 100 percent Italian. It was a very eccentric upbringing, with theme rooms and stuff.”
Cynthia made her first piece of clothing a dress at the age of 7. (I was literally playing with my Barbie dolls and watching