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The plain truth about the Beautiful People: Simon Doonan grew up worshipping the BP--Countess This or Princess That--and only when he became a New York style czar himself did he recognize true glitz when he saw it.(beauty)
From:
O, The Oprah Magazine
| Date:
December 1, 2006| Author:
Doonan, Simon
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ONCE UPON A TIME, LONG BEFORE ANgelina and Lindsay and Blahniks and bling, there lived a long-lost tribe called the Beautiful People. We earthlings worshipped at their altar, and we called them the BP for short.
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Back in the 1960s, the BP were big news: Every magazine was crammed with fascinating drivel about these glamour-pusses. Some names, like Princess Grace and Jackie O, were familiar to us commoner...
