In First Lady's Hometown in Slovenia, the Business Is Melania
SEVNICA, Slovenia — Melania cake. Melania cream. Melania wine. Melania tea. Melania slippers. Melania salami. Melania chocolate-coated apple slices. ... There are few products that the enterprising burghers of Sevnica, a small, rural Slovenian town where Melania Trump spent her formative years, have not sought to brand in honor of the first lady of the United States.
Until 2016 Sevnica was then better-known as a minor industrial hub, housing Kopitarna, one of Slovenia’s oldest shoe companies; Stilles, a furniture company that supplies international hotels; and Slovenia’s largest lingerie company, Lisca.
When Mrs. Trump was a child, her mother, Amalija, worked at another clothing factory, which has since closed. Her father Viktor is reported to have sold car parts. Few residents remember them from that time — not even Mr. Ocvirk, the mayor, who is just a year older than Mrs. Trump, and would have attended the local elementary school at the same time.
Mrs. Trump left Sevnica about 30 years ago, first to study in Ljubljana in the late 1980s, and then moving to New York City in 1996 (to work with Irene Marie Models and Trump Model Management).
“Marrying someone — I don’t think that’s really an accomplishment” said Mia Podlesnik, a young waitress at the ‘Rondo’ restaurant.
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