The stage manager yells again for the girls, and Vujevic joins the line of models near the backstage runway entrance.

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To close his show, he sent a parade of looks in white and had the models positioned themselves across the center of the runway.

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The show opened with a tableau of all the models in a stage and one by one they made their way to the runway marching to a regimented one-two-three march.

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An hour before his Emporio Armani presentation, the designer slipped on a pair of plastic shoe covers and stood on the pristine white runway to give the 70-odd models his ritual pep talk.

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Even the models seemed to get a tiny bit rounder, possibly taking a step away from the painfully thin runway ideal of the past decade.

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