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Byline: Rebecca Mead PHOTOGRAPHED BY MICHAEL THOMPSON
The Grey's Anatomy actress pays homage to Shirley MacLaine's personas from the film What a Way to Go! --dressed in the best fall fashions.
Ellen Pompeo stands in the lobby of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, gazing at a Plexiglas case that holds a tailor's dummy wearing a muslin reproduction of a voluminous, draped silk gown. "Look at this--it's so beautiful," she says. "Madame Gres." The dress, which the celebrated French designer made in 1968, is waistless and has vast, hanging sleeves, like an oatmeal-colored kimono with a lost sash. For Pompeo, whose success as the heroine of ...