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What other roles and achievements has Diane von Furstenberg had outside of designing clothes?

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Diane von Furstenbergā€™s achievements extend beyond fashion design. In 1985 she founded Salvy, a French-language publishing house, and later authored coffee-table books featuring celebrity homes. In 1992 she created and sold the Silk Assets collection on QVC. With her second husband, American media executive Barry Diller, she established the Dillerā€“von Furstenberg Family Foundation, which funds the DVF Awards that recognize women leaders. She has also written memoirs, including Diane: A Signature Life (1998) and The Woman I Wanted to Be (2014), and the self-help book Own It: The Secret to Life (2021). A documentary about her life, Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge, premiered in 2024.