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The Sequins That Made an Ingenue Look Like a Star Before the Reviews Did

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Bob Mackie's beaded gowns did double duty in old Hollywood: they photographed like a headline and gave a rising actress the entrance her billing hadn't earned yet. The archives credit those exact silhouettes with helping cement his name in the design canon. It is a rare kind of dress that outworks the publicist.

With reporting from WWD.

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