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TUESDAY JUNE 25

DIANE VON FURSTENBERG: WOMAN IN CHARGE Her life in one wrap Streaming: Disney +

Unlike its subject, this documentary about the iconic 20th-century fashionista does not, by all accounts, break any new stylistic ground. But the story it tells –the child of Holocaust survivors who married into European royalty before making a life among the stars in New York as the sexually free fashion mogul who “reinvented the dress” –is remarkable

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