Word: furstenburg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan-based Obolensky makes a living. When Alexander's department store in Manhattan decided to compete with rival Ohrbach's in copying original Paris dresses, they automatically turned to Obolensky, who pulled off a smash fashion show using models named Baroness Fiona Thyssen and Princess Ira von Furstenburg. "They were such good girls to do a favor," says Obolensky...
...occasion seemed to be all Tanya's when what to the wandering eye should appear but an ex-stripper named Rita Renoir in an openwork crocheted gown under which she wore only a nostalgic G string. Worse yet, Princess Virginie-CarolineThérèse-Pancracie-Galdine von Furstenburg, known to her friends as Ira, was in Venice in her new guise as actress. That threw Tanya into a snit. Ira, she complained, was "taking work away from girls who need it." Tanya finally called a press conference to explain everything, but she called it for the same hour...
...Palazzo Volpi given by Countess Nathalie Volpi di Misurata, Count Volpi's mother. Not very many movie people got invited, of course, but the Maharajah and Maharani of Jaipur were there, and the Begum Aga Khan was there, and Gina Lollobrigida was there, and Princess von Furstenburg, and Sam Newhouse, and Mrs. Amintore Fanfani, and a number of Bourbon-Parmas, Rothschilds, Patiños, Dubonnets, D'Arenbergs, Romanoffs, Colonnas and Borgheses. It was the best film festival any of them could remember...
Divorced. By Francisco ("Baby") Pignatari, 46, multimillionaire Brazilian playboy: Ira von Furstenburg Pignatari, 23, whose first husband, Prince Alfonso Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 40, dislikes her second so much that he hid their two children until Ira had to choose between her babies and Baby; after three years of marriage, no children; on grounds of mental cruelty; in Las Vegas...