“Fashion is all about flash, right? In Milan, Donatella Versace flashes her attributes (and those of her reed-thin models) in slinky dresses cut to reveal much and conceal little. In New York, movie stars shock with flashes of flesh in their borrowed couture creations. In Paris, a collection without flash would be lost in the fray.”
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