Alexandra Natasha von Fürstenberg (; born October 3, 1972) is a Hong Kong-born American heiress, socialite, entrepreneur and furniture designer based in Los Angeles.
She is the youngest daughter of American billionaire and
DFS Group
DFS Group (DFS) ( Chinese: 迪斐世) is a global travel retailer of luxury products based in Hong Kong. Established in 1960, its global network consists of stores located in major global airports and downtown locations featuring over 750 brand ...
co-founder
Robert Warren Miller.
Early life
Alexandra Miller was born in 1972, in British Hong Kong to American entrepreneur
Robert Warren Miller and his
Ecuadoran wife, María Clara "Chantal" (). She has two older sisters
Pia and
Marie-Chantal. Alexandra and her sisters grew up between Hong Kong, Paris and New York.
She attended
Parsons School of Design
The Parsons School of Design is a private art and design college under The New School located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhattan art ...
and
Brown University
Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...
, where she studied costume design and art history.
In the 1990s, Miller and her sisters were popularly dubbed by New York high society as the Miller Sisters.
Career
In 1995, Alexandra joined the design team of her then mother-in-law,
Diane von Fürstenberg. During her ten-year career at
DVF as Creative Director and later as Director of Image, Alexandra was instrumental in the re-launch of the iconic wrap dress as well as reinforcing the relevance of this American brand.
retrieved January 15, 2012.
After relocating to Los Angeles in 2005, Alexandra focused on designing exclusively for the home. In 2007, she created Alexandra Von Furstenberg, LLC, the brand, to create modern furniture and home accessories made of acrylic. She originally began by designing for her personal home, and then realized there was a market for her designs. In March 2008, she launched her first designs.
Personal life
On October 28, 1995, at the Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola in New York City, she married Prince Alexander von Fürstenberg, the son of the fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg and Prince Egon von Fürstenberg.[Carey Goldberg, 1995, "Quiet high-society wedding is a spectacle for gawkers," ''The New York Times'' (online), October 29, 1995, se]
accessed July 14, 2015. They have two children, Princess Talita von Fürstenberg, Talita Natasha (born May 7, 1999) and Prince Tassilo Egon Maximilian (born August 26, 2001). The couple divorced in 2002.
She is the godmother of her nephew Prince Constantine Alexios of Greece and Denmark.
On July 7, 2015, Alexandra married longtime fiancé, architectural designer and developer Dax Miller. The couple wed on the seventh anniversary of the start of their relationship.
References
External links
Alexandra von Furstenberg talks about fashion.
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1972 births
Living people
American furniture designers
American socialites
American people of Ecuadorian descent
Brown University alumni
Alexandra
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Princesses by marriage
Hispanic and Latino American artists
Hispanic and Latino American women in the arts
Parsons School of Design alumni
Artists from New York City
Miller family