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pier glass

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as in hand glass

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This wasn’t about sending the world through the looking glass, but about bringing the outside world onto the runway.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 26 Sep. 2026
The layer between reality and fiction within the show is porous yet defined, conjuring the peculiar experience of seeing through the looking glass.

— Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026

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Her elegant primary bedroom boasted a dressing area that was the picture of ’40s-movie-star luxury, complete with plush rugs, dramatic arches, and, of course, plenty of mirrors.

— Megan Johnson, Architectural Digest, 14 Oct. 2026
This new study reveals that experimental niobium-titanium alloys can defy this rule at a freezing -253°C (20 kelvin) by spontaneously shifting their atomic structure to form mirror-image twins and generate fresh defects.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2026

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