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A Very Fashionable Friendship

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Style icon Daphne Guinness kept declining her friend Isabella Blow's offer to introduce her to Alexander McQueen. But one day, when she was wearing one of his kimono dresses to the movies, she heard a voice say "Oi! That's my coat! I'm the person you don't want to meet!"And now you know the rest of the story. [Racked NY]