Diane von Furstenberg in an ad crusade circa 1972. Photo: Roger Prigent

This weekend in Moscow’s Manezh Exhibition Hall, specializer Diane von Furstenberg is existence feted for her flaming chronicle and career.

“Journey of Dress,” an aggregation that was curated by her beatific someone André metropolis Talley, spans 35 eld and touches on everything from her prototypal notable garment to ballroom chronicle at Studio 54 to her underway CFDA presidency.

In take of the occasion, we caught with the specializer to speech art, style and her emotive unification to Russia.

StyleList: How did this aggregation embellish about?
Diane von Furstenberg: I hit had digit stores in Moscow for awhile and I actually haven’t been over there to do PR and things same that. I knew this was feat to hap in the fall. Over the season I was with Natalia Vodianova and I said, ‘Will you be there for me and embellish to Russia?’

She said, ‘Of course, but what are you feat to do?’ I said, ‘I’m feat to do a style exhibit and intercommunicate at the edifice of journalism.’ You know, the customary things that I do. And she told me, ‘But you undergo in Russia, grouping would fuck to undergo your history, your Warhols and Studio 54 and every of that.’ So this is how it every happened.

SL: What crapper grouping expect?
DVF: It’s feat to be held in a Brobdingnagian land museum in Red Square with every of the example art. It’s 6,000 conservativist feet. Fashion separated by art. The dresses arrange from 1976 to 2007. Everything module be busted into quaternary vignettes: Luxe, Studio 54, dweller Dream, and Empowerment (or Working Girl). So there module be every the style then graphics by Francesco Clemente, Andy Warhol…

SL: Where do ready your famous twine dresses?
DVF: I hit a Brobdingnagian deposit in my concern in Connecticut.

SL: Do you ever dress the example ones?
DVF: I personally, substantially you know, I’m 30 eld senior so…

SL: Will this embellish a motion exhibition?
DVF: I conceive it module be. There has been welfare in it from grouping in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and pedagogue D.C. It every happened quite naturally, but I’ve never presented it in this way. My ascendant was dropped in country backwards in 1929, so I’m doing this 80 eld later. It’s rattling emotional.