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Filipacchi

Model Cara Delevingne has her hair styled backstage during London Fashion Week.

Is it possible to be too beautiful?

Lifestyle

Beauty is the template for every fairy-tale heroine, says Amanda Filipacchi, daughter of a former elite Ford model. She has written a novel about an attractive woman who dons an elaborate, unattractive disguise to find real love. “It’s sad how important it is,” she says of beauty. “It’s kind of tragic.”

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