The words they used were: feminine, beautiful, sexy, glamorous, chic, classy, different, comfortable, rooted, confident and, above all, in keeping with our modern times, powerful.

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"It needs to be glamorous and it needs to be beautiful, but their hope was that I could do that in a way that seemed unexpected, " he said.

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