Diane von Fürstenberg gave her fans quite the shock when she shared an update highlighting a nasty black eye she recently acquired.

The 78-year-old fashion designer posted a selfie to her Instagram on Tuesday that displayed a deep purple bruise surrounding one eye, as well as a slight droop to the affected eyelid.

Fürstenberg had a slightly dazed expression on her face as she revealed her injury to her 463,000 followers.  

‘Upon arrival in LA, I fell on the pavement and hit my forehead!’ she confessed in her caption. ‘Does not look good for sure but grateful nothing more serious!!!’ 

The fashion icon — who was the subject of the documentary Woman In Charge last year — didn’t sound too concerned about the bruise and kept her outlook upbeat.

‘I am owning it, applying lots of arnica gel and happy it was not worse!! Owning it is the secret of survival!’ she added.

Diane von Fürstenberg, 78, gave her fans a shock when she posted a pH๏τo highlighting a nasty black eye she recently acquired

‘Upon arrival in LA, I fell on the pavement and hit my forehead!’ she confessed in her caption. ‘Does not look good for sure but grateful nothing more serious!!!’; pictured in June in London

Diane — who sported a necklace reading ‘In Charge’ in her first selfie, also posted a second extreme closeup in which she popped her glᴀsses up to zoom in on her black eye. 

A source later told Page Six that the designer was injured outside her daughter’s home.

‘She fell on the street in front of her daughter’s house and is fine,’ they shared. ‘She is just very bruised. She is someone who posts daily and owning a fall is part of life.’

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Several fans took to the comments to share their condolences or express shock at the injury.

Among them was the Black-ish star and fashionista Tracee Ellis Ross.

‘Oh Diane!!!! I’m so glad not worse [sic]. Love you!!!!’ she wrote. 

Edward Enninful, former editor-in-chief of British Vogue, added, ‘Feel better Diane! So sorry ❤️.’

‘You poor thing!’ the singer Jewel wrote, before sharing her own injury story. ‘I had a dog once jump up as I was going down to pet it — broke my orbital bone and gave me the worst black eye! But all you can do is own it! ❤️❤️‍🩹” 

A source told Page Six that Diane was injured outside her daughter’s home. ‘She fell on the street in front of her daughter’s house and is fine,’ they shared. ‘She is just very bruised. She is someone who posts daily and owning a fall is part of life’

Several fans took to the comments to share their condolences, including Black-ish star and fashionista Tracee Ellis Ross

Last year, Fürstenberg joked at a Tribeca Film Festival screening of the documentary about her life, Woman In Charge, that watching it was like ‘being at the gynecologist’; pictured at the festival in June 2024

Last year, Fürstenberg took a look back at her life and accomplishments in the Hulu documentary Woman In Charge.

After a screening of film at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, she hilariously compared the experience of watching herself to ‘being at the gynecologist.’

‘I looked like s***. I said I liked wrinkles, but I didn’t realize I had so many,’ she joked.

However, she admitted that she ‘enjoyed’ the film during her chat with Gayle King.

‘At the end, it’s really a tribute to my mom… That’s why I had a big life. My mom wanted me to have a big life,’ she said of her mother Liliane Nahmias, a Holocaust survivor.