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Dragon Riders and Faerie Courts Are Angling for Your Closet

Group of diverse fashion models posing in elegant evening gowns on luxurious staircase indoors.
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Fantasy heroines with swords and suitors are quietly becoming a style reference, and design houses are taking note of what readers picture when they crack open the latest paperback. Don't be surprised if the next gown on a red carpet — or a pageant stage — borrows a little courtly drama from the bestseller table.

With reporting from Vogue.

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