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Byline: Mark Holgate
When Stephanie Seymour talks Dior and Yves Saint Laurent and Balenciaga, it is vintage couture and not the booty acquired from an afternoon spent at Barneys New York that she is referring to. It is not every day that someone can illustrate the provenance of some new acquisition-in this case, a fifties Balenciaga butterfly cape-with "Vogue cover, Irving Penn, Dovima or maybe Lisa [Fonssagrives]," but these are the sorts of points of reference that can be conjured up by her. Seymour's closets are astounding: a fuchsia embroidered evening dress from around 1960, also Balenciaga; a Dior cocktail dress with a huge bow on the hip from the same ...