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Byline: Thandie Newton
Confucius should have said, "Never disagree with your tailor." I am here in _Beijing-very first time in _China!-with Fendi, who last night turned the 2,000-year-old Great Wall into possibly the world's longest (certainly oldest) runway to present its spring collection. (I told Silvia Venturini Fendi and Karl Lagerfeld the models looked like exquisitely plumed cranes.) Wore this aaaamazing citrus strapless dress, whose construction was only slightly less incredible than the venue. But too big, so it had to be altered. "Tighter! Tighter!" I'd say to the Chinese gentleman doing the fitting (everyone had their own translator). He'd shake his head. I'd insist. He'd shake his head again. I'd insist again. Eventually he agreed to what I wanted. Then the dress turned up, and I realized that I had forgotten that I had to be able to get it on. Couldn't slip it past my hips. My stylist and I spent the 90-_minute drive from the Grand Hyatt to the Great Wall sewing me into it. So many ...