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I just love dressing up in everything a man is supposed not to be, in all that vulnerability, sweetness, preciousness and impracticality.

Grayson Perry

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Grayson Perry
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 24
Artist
Ceramicist
Embroiderer
Filmmaker
Printmaker
Vulnerability
Supposed
Everything
Men
Love
Preciousness
Dressings
Dressing
Sweetness

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