Fashion Icon Diane von Fürstenberg Honored in Thessaloniki, Embraces Greek Roots

Legendary manner decorator Diane von Fürstenberg returned this week to her ancestral location of Thessaloniki, wherever she was honored for her multifaceted vocation and philanthropic enactment successful a moving ceremonial astatine the Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace.

Ms. von Fürstenberg, who revolutionized 1970s manner with her "wrap dress," was calved successful Belgium.

Her mother, Liliane Nahmias, was a Holocaust subsister from Thessaloniki.

Deputy Minister of Interior Konstantinos Gioulekas presented Ms. von Fürstenberg with a commemorative plaque, reflecting the city's pridefulness successful her family's bequest and her mother's harrowing endurance of Nazi attraction camps.

Ms. von Fürstenberg spoke warmly of her Greek heritage, describing Thessaloniki arsenic a harmonious "salad" of cultures wherever Greeks, Jews, Armenians, and Muslims coexisted.

Mr. Gioulekas praised Ms. von Fürstenberg’s achievements and the planetary enactment of her Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation, which supports women's rights, quality rights, and clime initiatives.

The histrion Mimi Denissi besides attended, sharing her admiration for Ms. von Fürstenberg’s resilience and creator legacy.

The event, held successful a gathering cardinal to Thessaloniki’s 1912 liberation from Ottoman rule, symbolized a span betwixt the city's past and its celebrated diaspora, underscoring Ms. von Fürstenberg's beingness arsenic some a manner icon and a planetary advocate.