A confident woman doesn’t need a label to signal taste or stature. A Belgian handbag in her arms says it all.
Not too long ago, two elegant women passed each other in a train station in Paris. One of them was Christina Zeller, who is the wife of Prince Frédéric de Broglie and also happens to be creative director of the Belgian leather goods brand Delvaux. She couldn’t help noticing the petite “D” logo on the purse carried by the chic stranger on the platform. “You have a nice bag,” Zeller told her. “She looked at me and said, ‘You too.’”
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