She was the greatest female publisher of her century, splendidly successful in a sector otherwise dominated by men. She started as a lowly railwayman’s daughter in a little house in Offenburg (Southwest Germany) and rose to a crystal palace at the top of the international fashion world. When you regard her amazing career, you can recognize a wider significance, as proof that people can break life’s bounds when they recognize that these limits are not god-given but merely set by humans. That certainly constitutes Aenne Burda’s message to women everywhere. She worked extremely hard all her life to achieve her goals and still inspires admiration and love in our hearts and minds even now.