The Designer

The designer rules over his empire of fashion, pronouncing seasonal edicts of fabric, cut, color, hair, makeup, accessories... Every year is a high-wire act as he attempts another radical re-draft of the semiotics of style. Sometimes his collection triumphs, and sometimes it's a gruesome, aesthetic train-wreck with casualties galore: models, socialites, fashionistas who hung their sartorial hopes on his artistic vision. But whether it's triumph or farce, the emperor's new clothes are always sure to entertain and provoke.

Meaning: Consensus, chance, complicity, compliance.

Reversed: Unexpected break with convention, a renegade nature.

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