Diane and Egon - Someday my prince will come

Knew nothing of Diane von Furstenberg’s first husband Egon who gave her the famous last name, lineage, and her first taste of partnering with the sexually indiscriminate. He was very cute in his day - a tough act to follow for old, wizened homosexual Barry Diller. Was she ever with a straight guy or is she the Liza Minnelli of the fashion world?

Prince Egon could have played Larry's fair-haired brother in Three's Company!

Diane has always been more interested in money and power than in cock.

And she has succeeded admirably.

[quote] "I remember telling him I would give him a son. I meant it to be seductive; instead, it turned out to be prophetic,” Diane later wrote in a Vogue essay, describing the night of their engagement.

OK, this tells me I am a different species than straight people. "After you fertilize my eggs, I will gestate a male heir" is about the least seductive sentiment I can imagine.

He could have been the cowboy in Boys In The Band.

She had flings with Warren Beatty, Ryan O’Neal and Richard Gere.

In 1973, Diane and Egon were profiled by New York Magazine in a story titled “The Couple That Has Everything. Is Everything Enough?” By Linda Francke (who now goes by Linda Bird Francke). The article painted the couple as both promiscuous and passion-devoid. “The only way for a relationship to survive, I think, is to have no sex at all,” Diane is quoted saying, while Egon discussed his penchant for sexual experimentation, noting that the couple “tried it with another woman.”

What did she say about gays and lesbians that the article decided not to reprint?

mother was a hair colorist on LI back in the day. One of her guys she worked with dated Egon ..this was late 60-very early 70s

Alexander was cute back in his youth...

I guess Egon was a top...

R7 I wondered the same. Seems very out of character for her.

R8 Any more details? I think his next wife was a hairstylist. That would’ve been awkward if they were from the same salon

Not necessarily. The next wife knew what was up.

Very interesting. Not unattractive but certainly not a beauty but forever convinced she's hotter than the sun.

He looked better in the late 1970s than she did. Did she develop an ED?

He wrote a couple books - fashion and design for men. Ultimately she eclipsed him with that GD wrap dress!

Prince Egon von Fürstenberg...puh-lease, Eurotrash!

Diane is a triumph of glamour and styling over actual physical beauty. She developed an iconic look early and stayed with it.

The photo in OP illustrates how challenging the styles of the 1970s could be. The proportions were off.

R19 isn't that the point of fashion? Most people aren't natural beauties.

Egon looks gay as an Ungaro spring frock in OP's pic.

R11 He had his moments when he looked quite handsome. Both he and DVF benefited more from glamour than beauty (agree with R19).

The Prince has absolutely NO bulge in those very fitted pants.

I would've jumped his bones.

They both look terrible at r21.

R25,maybe he was tucking due to being shy.

This was around the time when infotainment media started getting a little looser with their usual self-censorship and started experimenting with printing things they would have previously hushed up. Many tears were shed and by the time Donald Trump came along they’d gone back to the old rules of being coy about telling what they knew about public figures so they didn’t upset celebrities and lose access.

Royals tend to be wildly perverted. The more names, the freakier their deviances.

R29 Well they certainly didn’t self-edit. Everything printed they supplied themselves. I think she jus didn’t like the picture it painted once published.

Diane should always have had bangs.

R7, what Diane said 50 years ago that In-Style could simply have ignored yet chose to make a fuss about, was that she's into femmes, not butches (Diane likes women). It's a tad hypocritical to criticise Diane von Furstenberg for saying in 1973 that butch lesbians are like men, when the message butch lesbians are being given in our more "enlightened" times today is that they are really trans or non-binary or should chop their tits off.

[quote]Egon admits that were he to meet an attractive man, he would not be loath to experiment. But Diane is not so sure. "Homosexuality is a kind of narcis- sism," she says. "It's like making love in front of a mirror. It's a big bore. Besides, what is the point of being a woman if you have to drop yourself two stages to act like a man? Butch dykes upset me. A pretty, attractive woman? That's different." woman," Egon said. "There were three of us. But you know what?" He shrugged. "It other was just twice as much work for me."

Oh, Diane. You naughty minx!

The Prince resembles the killer klown.

She was interesting looking. I get the allure. Frankly, she had a modelesque look—all the ingredients to be conventionally attractive, but just off the mark with a few, which made her more interesting to look at than a straightforwardly pretty woman. She was skinny, had good skin and a lot of hair and was white, and those are all the boxes that really need to be checked for someone to be dolled up and admired in the US and Europe.

Disappointed by the homophobia but not surprised. She's ancient and she's an elitist snob of the type who asserts her social self-superiority by assigning others into financial and social castes—in other words, a living embodiment of the whole spirit of the fashion world.

The article is lovely about their relationship, which continued long after the marriage. But the comment is sneaky given r35 quote of what she said is bland, especially considering the time it was said, her age and their circumstances. Good for both of them.

Good for a gay man and his beard for remaining friends? How much effort did that take, really?

Trump deficiencies, personal and professional were widely known and even remarked upon, "short finger vulgarian". His deficiencies were passed on as strengths, ie using the term "populist" for someone completely inexperienced.

He had long standing media relationships that gave him decades of free press which he used to craft an image appealing to a specific type of constituency that made his shameful time in office possible.

I don't believe the Trump organization socialized with the jet set Von Furstenberg, Warhol crowd. He's just a trashy kind of rich guy from Queens County.

Tangent, but since we are talking about creepy old fashion designers and their sometimes-wicked ways, let's revisit Donna Karan being a horrible monster.

It just never gets old for me. 😃 She's something. 😃 With her demented forced smiling 😃 after every awful thing she says. 😃

DK should not scrape her hair back like that. She looks awful.

There is only ONE Egon for me…

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Apologies for the link above. Here's another link. I'd hit it if I ran into him in the steam room.

I honestly had no idea he was dead. I'm also surprised that he died of AIDS after the cocktail had been available for nearly a decade.

R49, Egon's official cause of death is liver cancer.

They did not ask for it. It was an exchange. One, silky smooth hard body and some pushy in exchange for movie stardom.

R43 Yowza, that’s awful. Never saw that before. And the No-bangs ponytail isn’t doing her any favors either.

r13 I was a teenager and not all to0 interested in what went on at mothers job back then. I wish she was around to ask as she was a real yenta and knew everyones business.

I do remember a cute blond named Jimmy was the boy who dated him. It didnt last long as I remember he committed suicide not long after.

The salon was very upscale, (Maximus I think) mob owned to launder all that cash. This was right before unisex salons

I knew Egon, and Diane much less. She was and is ambition personified. Egon was a silly, nice and not very bright gay man. He hung out with male models (Greg Bauer, Carlton Fuller, HIEMcDonald etc) in the mid 70s. Spent many a night at Barefoot Boy and Flamingo with these guys. Greg and Joe were pretty good friends of mine, both lost to HIV as was Egon.

Diane is a survivor (which I respect her for) of the kind of squamous cell carcinoma (of the throat) that comes from HPV infection. When someone gets it in the throat it’s a pretty good indication of active cunnilingus- so you decide. She is NOT a nice person- she is the ultimate kiss up kick down type. Nevertheless I admire her for her success and as a survivor. Her current “husband”( who I assume is finally aging into retirement) is one of the most unpleasant and ruthless men I know of- Barry and Diane are not a cozy couple and have lived lives of total deceptiin and successfully applied ruthless ambition. I don’t understand people like them at all.

Diane has always liked the ladies and Egon was gay so they made a good lavender pairing especially so because they were genuinely fond of each other.

Why Diane married Diller is a bit of a mystery to me at least. I guess Diller wanted a trophy beard but everybody knows he's gay so what's the point? Everybody knows Diane is gay as well. Perhaps there's some business angle.

It's about protecting Diller's fortune from taxes, R57. At least in part. He has no heirs before marrying Diane.

Diller is worth an estimated $4.2 BILLION. He has a priceless collection of art, much of which the public has never seen.

When he passes, Diane (and her two adult children) will inherit everything. I'm sure he has made arrangements for the charitable foundation he and Diane founded as well. And there's Little Island to keep up.

You can get cancer from eating pussy? What about sucking dick?

[Quote]When he passes, Diane (and her two adult children) will inherit everything.

There's no way to know this. Have you seen his trust?

Bruce Savin was another one of Egon's paramours.

Google Image Search isn't showing me Greg Bauer nor Gregory Bauer.

He sure had good taste in male models!

Diane Halfin is a Belgian-born woman of Jewish and Greek descent.

R54 might imagine that he knew all these people, but they didn't even know he existed.

Charlie (assuming it's authentically him) is a longtime DL veteran with some really good stories. He appears to have been quite the socially connected little player in his youth.

Egon von Furstenberg is NOT A FAG! And I'm just the dame to prove it!

Great pics of Joe and Carlton- thanks! Well connected in my youth? It was the times- the post 60s boomer gay boom in the large cities of the US. And I survived.

Did Carlton have a nelly voice?

Charlie is a long-time know-it-all, r70.

Diane always loved a loud print.

The Dillers, back in the day.

I find Diane’s relationships with both Egon and Barry to be very romantic!

Looks like DVF was trying to do this, r75 except Talitha did it better

German prince you say? Looks like Diane knows her way around a foreskin.

Carlton was pretty butch and very funny- did not take himself seriously.

Thanks for the complement R74. My posts are my experience and opinions. Sorry if they are hard on you.

J'adore Charlie's gay history.

OP- He looks more like Prince Egon von FAIRY 🧚‍♀️

Here’s a thread from 13 years ago. Charlie also took part in the conversation. Things haven’t changed much on the subject.

Charlie has been telling the same story about the von Furstenberg's for decades, which basically boils down to him having gone to some clubs and parties they were also at back in the 70s, which probably thousands of other people did. He even uses the same words to describe Diane (survivor, successful), giving the impression of being scripted rather than natural recollection.

And? What is it you cuntface?

She was cute. He was also...from the neck down.

He looked like a Tom of Finland drawing.

[quote] He's a butterface.

So is she.

That’s called consistency R84. And Diane was never at Barefoot Boy or Flamingo with the boys! My contact with her was very minimal and mostly through the designer Charles Nolan now deceased. Charles was partner to one of my best friends since the mid 70s. My contact with Diller was through my former partner now resealed who knew him quite well. I did not like Diller which caused a bit of friction with my partner. As I’ve probably said repeatedly, have to admire the successes of Diane and Diller if not them as people.

Resealed? Ugh, “deceased” (screwy autocorrect)

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