TAL ITA VON FÜRSTENBERG & MAR IA -OLYMP IA OF GREECE
“I don’t have to use ‘Princess’ on my passport like my cousin Olympia does,”Talita von Fürstenberg says with a laugh. “But I have so many names, they didn’t all fit into the boxes on the SAT sheet.” Nevertheless, Princess Talita Natasha von Fürstenberg, a descendant of German nobility and granddaughter of designer Diane von Fürstenberg, is very much fashion royalty. Now a junior at NewYork University (NYU), the 20-year-old helms TVF for DVF, a boho-chic range for which Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece—or just Olympia, as TVF’s 23-year-old cousin and confidante is known to most people— has become something of an unofficial consultant and brand ambassador.
My boyfriend, Rocco [Brignone de Brabant], makes me oatmeal every day. I’m not a big coffee person, but he is, so I’ll dabble. I can handle an espresso if it has a lot of almond milk.
I didn’t start drinking coffee until I moved to New York when I was 18. Now, I like it black.
I recently transferred from Georgetown, where everyone went to class in sweats. NYU is different. A lot of my classes are about fashion or design, and the other students try really hard to put on their most stylish outfits. This is probably when we start texting. We text all day, every day. Even if we don’t make lunch plans, half the time we run into each other at Bar Pitti because we have so many friends in common. Her boyfriend is my godbrother. I’ve known him longer than she has! It’s weird how much our lives overlap. It’s, like, cosmic. I work from my grandmother’s studio in the Meatpacking District. DVF is all about feeling confident, feminine and strong, so my goal is to give women my age that same kind of empowered feeling. I’m actually working on my own collaboration right now, which is a bit of a secret—sorry!—but seeing Talita work and even consulting on her designs have really inspired me. Sometimes, like during Fashion Week, we’ll be out every night.This is going to sound weird, but I sit my sink to do my makeup. I like Charlotte Tilbury’s foundation and Pillow Talk eyeshadow. I like Charlotte Tilbury too; her tinted moisturiser gives a great glow. People will be like,“Did you go to LA? You’re really tan!” When we have a party, we get home really late. I do, anyway. But the rest of the time, I watch I like really intense dramas and thrillers. Rocco’s always like,
“Are you getting nightmares?” I do sometimes, but I still can’t stop watching before I fall asleep!