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    POWER PLAY

    May 19, 2019 4 minutes
    Words: Grace O’Neill.

    IF YOU GO BACK 20 YEARS – five, even – the images that sprung to mind when we thought about people in positions of power tended to look the same: white, middle-aged men in dull, black suits taking up the bulk of parliament… and courts… and the corporate world… It was all remarkably one-note. There has been gradual change over the decades, but now we’re really seeing it. Hillary Clinton in her multi-coloured suits, Julie Bishop in her Saint Laurent heels and Jacinda Ardern in a head scarf – the appearance of power has had a metamorphosis.

    No surprise, then, that AW19 presented variations on the theme of power dressing. There were literal interpretations –

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