Like Lady Liberty, she knows something about flowing gowns.
Wrap-dress impresario Diane von Fürstenberg led a massive fundraising effort to build a new museum dedicated to the Statue of Liberty, and the fruits of her labor will go on display for the first time Thursday, when the gleaming space opens on Liberty Island.
“They wanted me to raise $100 million,” the 72-year-old designer tells the June/July issue of Harper’s Bazaar. “I don’t like to ask for money, but I said that I would try.”
The cash was needed to relocate the Statue of Liberty Museum from its cramped space inside the statue’s pedestal to a new 26,000-square-foot building on the island.
The fashion magnate came up with the idea for an abstract “Stars and Stripes” mural that acts as a donor wall. It includes 50 stars, some of which were sold to donors for $2 million a pop.
“I have to say that this was the easiest thing I’ve ever done,” she told the mag. “The first star I sold was to Michael Bloomberg. Mike’s the best person to start with because he always says yes.
“Then I went to Jeff Bezos, and he said, ‘I’m going to get one to honor my stepfather, who emigrated from Cuba.’ ”She also went to Chanel, Disney, Coca-Cola and other corporations.
Some 40,000 people from all over the world also pitched in as part of a crowdfunding effort.
As a Belgian immigrant, von Fürstenberg said she has always been drawn to the statue, which she first saw when she moved to New York as a 22-year-old with her then-husband, German Prince Egon von Fürstenberg.
“We arrived at dawn . . . I looked up, and there she was,’’ she said. “That image is forever imprinted on my mind.”
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2019-05-14 02:46:00Z
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