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and graduated with an A.B. in history in 1986 after completing an 127-page-long senior thesis titled "Beauty in the
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section. It was a special supplement focusing on fashion and related stories published six times a year with the U.S., Europe, and Asian editions of the magazine. "She brings the savviest sense in terms of the role that fashion plays in our lives -- and the business of fashion", said editor Jim
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later on showed, in fact, that readership, already declining in the later years of
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has to start off with. That's where you learn about the industry; that's the baptism by fire. You learn about fabrics, you have to cover
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