VENICE- “Diane has a halo effect,” said Christy Turlington Burns on Thursday morning ahead of receiving a DVF Award that same evening for her humanitarian work with the organization she founded 15 years ago, Every Mother Counts.

Turlington Burns was flanked by her daughter Grace and Diane von Furstenberg , sitting on an animalier-printed sofa in one of the designer’s salons in the 15th-century Palazzo Giustinian Brandolini on the Grand Canal, brimming with myriad family portraits, art works and memorabilia from her travels around the world.

“Calvin [Klein] would be horrified,” von Furstenberg quipped, in a nod to the minimalist taste of the American designer, who helped propel Turlington Burns’ career in fashion.

However, it was not her supermodel stardom that was the focus of the

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