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    THE DANISH GIRL

    Jun 07, 2019 4 minutes
    by david smiedt

    Long before the Marvel movie studio decided to monetise the shit out of their IP by cramming Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow and the other one played by Jeremy Renner into Avengers, another more formidable clique of celestial beings produced awe and wonder.

    We’re talking the nineties and we’re talking supermodels. There’d been iconic faces before, of course, and there have been since, but never such a collection en masse. They muscled their exquisite way from the fashion pages to the covers of magazines; they famously didn’t get out of

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