Featured Posts

To top
Title Image

von Tag

26 Apr

Diane von Furstenberg Is the Toast of Brussels

“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...
Continue reading
28 Mar

Diane von Furstenberg Exhibition Slated for Brussels Fashion &

Diane von Furstenberg might be the topic of an upcoming exhibition at The Fashion and Lace Museum in Brussels, where the designer was born. “Woman Before Fashion,” which might be on view from April 21 to Jan. 7, 2024, will explore von Furstenberg’s profession in fashion with a give attention to the long-lasting wrap dress, because the silhouette prepares to rejoice its fiftieth anniversary in 2024. The museum’s curator, Nicolas Lor, has divided the exhibition into 4 chapters, recognizing von Furstenberg as each an individual and a designer. The pieces presented within the exhibition got here from the archives of the House of Diane von Furstenberg. “It's each exciting and emotional to be honored with the primary European exhibition of my work...
Continue reading