lace top, and a nine-foot train. That year, she was named Designer of the Year by the British Fashion Council, and in 2012, Burton was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

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The late leftist journalist Andrew Kopkind pointed to “the universal desire of statesmen to make their most monstrous ...

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