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Betina Holte Launches Seasonless Line
When Betina Holte started making clothes several years ago -- first for herself, after fiddling with fabrics she'd find at flea markets, and then for a couple of stores in New York and Copenhagen -- she'd become wary of the "model slash designer" taboo, or the skeptical, preconceived notions that befall many models (or actors) when they try to branch out into other creative ventures. So she decided to launch a line not under her own name, but under "Lis.B," a play on her middle name. The collection had a short run; when she landed a design role at Zac Posen, she could no longer find time to sustain it. But Holte said it was a learning experience that helped her fine-tune her aesthetic.
Now 34, Holte is ready to take another stab at design -- this time under her own name. Though it was her modeling career that initially brought her to New York in 1998 from her native Denmark, the statuesque beauty -- who is married to Madonna's ex and Lourdes'...