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[The Duchess of York] has ordered 12 new outfits from the London couturier Isabell Kristensen. [Kristensen] was unwilling to comment on the duchess’s style, other than to say that her influences for this season’s collections have been twofold: the bathycolpian cartoon character Jessica Rabbit and reed-slender Audrey Hepburn. “One of my great specialities is the corset,” she says. “And they are padded for both bust and hips.” (Times [London], “Haught Couture,” 6/1/1995.)