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tars explode seemingly suddenly. Culture voyeurs
sit quietly on the side of the road���watching, looking,
listening for the next ���it.��� Then a Lady Gaga appears:
one day nothing���then Gaga. When asked, twenty-sixyear old Gaga patiently and a bit exasperatedly explains
that she is not an overnight sensation; she has been
working at her craft since she was fourteen years old.
And there���s the clue. Gaga knew who she was when she
was barely a teenager���all she had to do was show us.
And so it was with designer Fabiola Arias. Arias too
always knew who she was. She was born in Havana,
Cuba where she lived until the age of four. Arias has
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