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"After making over more than 900 women I have learned to emotionally distance myself while I am in the act. I find it hard to completely chop off someone&amp;#x27;s hair when I know them because it becomes as scary for me as it is for them. What I have learned is that in order to get the most dramatic difference I can&amp;#x27;t really become friends with my subjects. But there are a few that do get under my skin. Last weekend when I was doing swimsuit makeovers in South Beach, Florida, a woman, who shall remain nameless, told me that she didn&amp;#x27;t even own a bathing suit because the one she had looked so bad that she threw it out. She was an average size 14 and gravitated towards the big prints, which is always a no no. When she tried on a low cut navy ruffle suit by Liz Claiborne Women (it?\uFFFD\uFFFDs not out yet but will be in May) you could see how fabulous she felt?\uFFFD\uFFFDshe jumped onto the set (a pre-built stage where the women have the pictures taken) and started modeling like it was her career.&amp;amp;nbsp; It made me realize that fashion can totally transform you physically and emotionally. When I saw this shy woman turn into a confident model I broke down in tears.&amp;amp;nbsp; That might have been the first time I cried over a swimsuit but not the first time I cried at work. When I was an accessories editor at another magazine there was a stylist who asked me for thigh-high baby-blue socks.&amp;amp;nbsp; I spent 6 days looking for them and when I couldn&amp;#x27;t find them I had about 20 different pairs dyed and made. When the stylist looked at them they were all wrong -- one was to nubby, one too flat, the wrong shade of blue and on and on. I told her that they didn&amp;#x27;t exist and she told me that I wasn&amp;#x27;t working hard enough.&amp;amp;nbsp; She left with all the socks, none of them right, and the day after she left I found the perfect baby blue thigh-high sock draped over my telephone. I quickly hid it in my drawer thinking my assistant at the time found it. When the editor came back from the shoot she asked me if I had seen the sock and then said &amp;amp;quot;You see -- if I think it, it exists.&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;nbsp; They were from the Isaac Mizrahi runway show and she knew about them the whole time but just wanted to see if I could find them. I couldn&amp;#x27;t help but cry. In retrospect I secretly appreciate her teaching me the lesson to never give up. Have you ever cried at work?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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