Sophie Habsburg

Sophie Franziska Maria Germaine Habsburg also known as Archduchess Sophie of Austria[1][2][3][4][5] (born on 19 January 1959) is a French-born Italian designer and former model.

Sophie Habsburg
Born (1959-01-19) 19 January 1959
Boulogne-sur-Seine, Paris, France
OccupationModel, journalist, handbag designer
Spouse(s)
Parent(s)Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria
Countess Helene zu Törring-Jettenbach

Career

Sophie Habsburg was born in Paris on 19 January 1959, the daughter of Archduke Ferdinand Karl Max of Austria and Countess Helene of Törring-Jettenbach. She descends from the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, which reigned over Austria-Hungary until its deposition in 1918. While studying interior design in her hometown, she worked as a model.[6]

At the age of 20, Habsburg moved to Madrid and had a successful career in modelling. She appeared in De Beers and Valentino commercials, as well as on the cover of the first issue of Vogue Spain. At the same time she also designed jewellery and worked as decorator, radio host and journalist, interviewing royals and actors. She became friends with Richard Gere after an interview and raised funds with him for the charity SOS Children's Villages.[6]

In 2010, Habsburg started designing handbags. Her bags are often worn by members of the Spanish and British royal families.[6]

Personal life

On 11 February 1990 in Salzburg, Sophie Habsburg married the German-Italian Prince Mariano Hugo of Windisch-Graetz on 11 February 1990 in Salzburg. They had three children, one of whom died in a car accident in 2010.[6]

gollark: Maybe you could make a good scifi thing a hundred years in the future or something about faster computers/better optimization algorithms/distributed system designs/something making central planning more tractable. Although in the future supply chains will probably be even more complex. But right now, it is NOT practical.
gollark: In any case, if you have a planned system and some new need comes up... what do you do, spend weeks updating the models and rerunning them? That is not really quick enough.
gollark: If you want to factor in each individual location's needs in some giant model, you'll run into issues like:- people lying- it would be horrifically complex
gollark: Information flow: imagine some farmer, due to some detail of their climate/environment, needs extra wood or something. But the central planning models just say "each farmer needs 100 units of wood for farming 10 units of pig"; what are they meant to do?
gollark: The incentives problems: central planners aren't really as affected by how well they do their jobs as, say, someone managing a firm, and you probably lack a way to motivate people "on the ground" as it were.

References
  1. Almanach de Gotha (2018), 'Austria', Pages 42-86
  2. Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels (1978), 'Österreich, P 111-139
  3. Burkes Royal Families of the World Vol 1 (1977), Page 10-32
  4. Les Maisons Imperiales et Royales d'Europe (1966), Pages 16-88
  5. Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch (2015), Pages 167-225
  6. "Sophie Habsburg". Italian Vogue.

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