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VOGUE: Point Of View.(Brief article)

Vogue

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THE ILLUSIONIST

STEP 1: Give thanks for what your mama gave you.

STEP 2: Bone up on the latest shape-shifting bluffs and dodges.

STEP 3: Work your magic.

Remember how in the early 1990s we alllaughablythought we needed clunk-heeled boots, chunky as toasters, to "balance out" the rest of our silhouette? And how, back in the eighties, a T-shirt the size of a swimming-pool cover, together with leggings, created a sort of SpongeBob effect, skinny sticks below and TORSO "SINS" CONCEALED? Looking back, you'd think the Western world had lost its mind as well as its taste. But no. Our eyes ...

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