Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg is speaking out after her husband of 24 years, Barry Diller, publicly came out as gay.

“What’s the difference? I don’t understand,” von Furstenberg, 78, told Variety in a Thursday, October 16, profile, when asked about being married to a gay man. “It doesn’t change anything. I’m sorry — it’s a stupid question. I married two gay men, OK? I don’t know why, but to me, they’re not gay, so it doesn’t make any difference.”

The fashion icon has been married twice. She was married to the late Prince Egon von Fürstenberg, who was openly bisexual, from 1969 to 1983. (Diane and Egon, who died in 2004 at the age of 54, shared two children.) After their divorce, Diane moved on with Diller, now 83, and they tied the knot in 2001.

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