fashion plate
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Nan Kempner sat nearby and so, too, did the fashion plate and philanthropist Judith Peabody, crowned with her signature bouffant nimbus.
From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2022
Barbie Gilbert is no Pamela Anderson look-alike or a celebrity fashion plate, as earlier Barbie iterations usually were.
From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2021
He would grow to become something of a fashion plate, but his aunt, Trina Allen, said he wanted nothing to do with suits like the one his grandma dressed him in for Easter one year.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 23, 2021
A drab housewife becomes a Paris fashion plate, then meets her ex-husband.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2021
It’s a cheap dress and several years out of style, yet she makes it look like the newest fashion plate from Paris.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
