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Writing about fashion forces you to overcome the nagging feeling that fashion doesn't matter, that it's trivial or fleeting. I just look at it anthropologically, which is different from the way I'd write about art.

Susan Orlean

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Susan Orlean
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 31
Journalist
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Cleveland
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