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Alt is also proud of the cover of last year's beauty issue featuring Lauren Hutton, Stephanie Seymour and Daria Werbowy, 20 years between each woman. "I think it's great to have a woman who's 70 on the cover," she says of Hutton. "In France we have a lot of actresses who are ageing and accept their age, which I think is a good example." This leads her to her aforequoted line about weapons of seduction.

So he assigned me a rock-is-dead piece, I explained why it wasn't in the aforequoted seven-thousand-word essay, it was rejected, and after eight installments Secular Music was dead instead.