Hungarian refugee in Paris in 1948, she learned the fashion trade on the job, became a model, created her own label, was noticed by Dior and Balmain, became friends with Malraux and was hired by Hermes, the house where she created the mythical belt from this observation: "The letter H is symmetrical"? it could make a loop. "Her aristocratic elegance inspired the Hermès collections until the 1980s.