Complex sentence: A French friend of his mother's fed Alaia's instinctive creativity with copies of "Vogue" and lied about his age to get him into the local École des Beaux-Arts in Tunis, where he studied sculpture and gained valuable insights into the human form.
Split into simpler sentences: A French friend of his mother fed Alaïa's instinctive creativity with copies of "Vogue". He lied about his age to get him into the local École des Beaux-Arts in Tunis and began studying sculpture where he gained valuable insights into the human form.