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Noted designer's brush with danger in divided Germany inspired homage to American fashion icon

July 15, 2009 by admin 




CLEARWATER, Fla., July 9 / — In 1976, still emboldened by her successful escape from oppressive East Germany the year before, designer and artist Ulli Kampelmann concocted a wild scheme to sneak back in to spend Christmas with her mom and two brothers.


At dawn on Christmas morning that year more than three decades ago, Ulli and her boyfriend Klaus approached Checkpoint Charlie, the border between East and West in Berlin. Not only were they

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