“It’s truly going back to the roots,” Diane von Furstenberg said Tuesday as a black sedan ferried her from the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken back to her hotel in central Brussels, a stone’s throw from the Fashion & Lace Museum that just opened an exhibition dedicated to her.
It was a poignant homecoming for the Belgian dressmaker, who spoke to 70 grade-12 students at the general public school she attended until age 13, following within the footsteps of her mother, Liliane, a Holocaust survivor ultimately banished from study when “racial laws” got here into effect during World War II.
“I told them how essential the college was to me and to my mother,” she related. “I hope I managed to encourage 20...
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