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“I’m all for amusing, crazy goings-on,” fashion editor Diana Vreeland noted one night, in December 1975, at the launch of Deborah Turbeville’s fictitious fashion magazine , “but essentially fashion is a totally serious business and it always has been.” Produced in a limited edition of one thousand copies, was first shown when the New York bookstore Rizzoli held the exhibition , which presented fifty-two spreads of Turbeville’s images on two large boards, as if they were on the wall of an art department.

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