About Desiree Gruber and her Latest Endeavor, DGNL

Amaka Obi
2 min readOct 7, 2017

This article contains recent information on what you need to know about Desiree Gruber, her recent photos, ventures and an interesting bio to keep you updated about her accomplishments thus far. The 48-year-old Executive producer of her famous work, Lifetime Project Runway, is the Founder, President, and CEO of the multi-media agency Full Picture.

(Image: Desire Guber)

She has many awards and nominations to her name from various notable organizations including, the GLAAD Media Award, over 20 Awards the media industry and a Peabody Award as well as Eleven Emmy Award nominations for producing Project Runway. Harper Bazaar-Dolce & Gabbana selected Desiree as one of their Women to Watch of 2014, and in 2010 she became of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs.

Desiree Gruber has worked in many industries, including fashion, retail, technology, and entertainment. Gruber has also worked for Victoria’s Secret and Vitaminwater. She advises clients such as Heidi Klum, Google, and AOL among others.

Desiree is also the co-founder of DGNL ventures which is one of her latest endeavors. They invest in startups that are creating innovative solutions in technology suitable for every lifestyle even for celebrities. Before DGNL, Gruber had already begun investing in innovative companies, like, popchips, Launchmetrics when it was previously Fashion GPS and a group called Songza which was acquired by Google.

With the same passion that fuels Desiree Gruber’s investments and business engagements, she serves within her philanthropic endeavors. Gruber serves on the US Fund for UNICEF board in the New York, God’s Love WE Deliver and in a non-profit that recently launched to represent New York City’s technology sector, Tech: NYC.

Desiree Gruber has also enjoyed her fair share of recognition by the press and some great features in a number of publications, such ass; New York Magazine, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Variety, The Oprah Magazine, and Women’s Wear Daily.

Gruber has also been married to her husband, actor Kyle MacLachlan since 2002, they have one child between them, Callum Lyon.

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