Miuccia Prada, creative director and granddaughter of the company's founder, owns a 33.2% stake in the firm, as does her husband, CEO Patrizio Bertelli.
Although she was educated at the rigorous St . Pauls Girls School and at the Central School of Speech and Drama, both in London, her acting taps into the raffish bohemian gene pool that is her inheritance: she is the daughter of Vanessa Redgrave and the late director Tony Richardson, the granddaughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson.
It's written by Jenny Lumet, daughter of director Sidney and granddaughter of Lena Horne, so the multiracial aspect comes from experience, and, an extra reveals, the very funny competitive-dishwasher-stacking scene is taken from a real-life battle between her dad and Bob Fosse.
We caught up with director Lisa Immordino Vreeland Dianaa's granddaughter) to get you the lowdown.
Running From Crazy (Director: Barbara Kopple) — Mariel Hemingway, granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, strives for a greater understanding of her family history of suicide and mental illness.
Havelange and his wife, Anna Maria (nee Hermanny), had a daughter, Lúcia, who was divorced from Teixeira in 1997, a granddaughter, Joana, director of the organising committee of the Brazil 2014 World Cup, and two grandsons, Ricardo and Roberto.
Sophie Delafontaine, creative director of Longchamp and granddaughter of its founder Jean Cassegrain, explains how a visit to Kate's London home helped them to develop the wide range of bags that is intended to be a continuing project with the company, rather than the one-season collaborations it has had with the artist Tracey Emin and the architect Thomas Heatherwick.
Stand at the top of the plunging staircase at the Morse-Libby House, known today as Victoria Mansion, and its director recalls the Libby granddaughter's return to tell how "Grandpa Libby" struck fear in the hearts of youngsters who might venture down its historic slide.
The Salzburg's present director, Gretl Aicher, 72, is the granddaughter of Anton Aicher, its founder.
This is no surprise, perhaps, given her heritage as the daughter of screenwriters and granddaughter of the director and writer Elia Kazan.
"If you want to win there's no time for networking," said Angela Janklow Harrington, an executive at Dolce & Gabbana and the granddaughter of the director Mervyn LeRoy.
