… high fashion Dutch designers in Belgium, was an exotic dancer, courtesan (mistress to the Royals), and was alleged by the French to be a spy in World War I.
(Photo: Mata Hari in about 1912 in a Hirsch & Cie day ensemble. Note the use of lace and 3D flowers in the Hirsch designs; logical since the Netherlands in the early 1900’s led the world in the highest quality lace production – although Queen Victoria in England was having it duplicated for the English)