FLORENCE — “I do not like timeless: it is such a misleading concept,” says Belgian designer Ann Demeulemeester. “Sometimes it is just a way to hide banal, bland designs, or things that do not have temper. I am fond of Le Corbusier, for instance, in particular what he did in the 1920s. Well, that work for me is not timeless, but definitely of the 20s, and yet it still matters.”
Demeulemeester has achieved the same kind of enduring…