浪漫`风格

　　Brooklyn-base. d El la Richards does freelance wo-+rk as$  a ?s!/?eam*+)s@=tress to #.$*pay the bill[*,^@s, but is also a struggling fas$hi`)on= designer;, her ?.talent w#:`hich her friend Max, who often=. gets_ he$/r he@_]r se:wing work, can see. S!he sp ec[ializes in des!\!igns f:or plus
= size. 
d women^\ such as hersel^[f `in knowing t )(hat the high%,` end +  fas#hio/--$n \!industry largely igno(=;?res this majority se.^g;m#\en[t of th* e populat,]_ion in sh\`e herself havi ng fe ;-=lt that e@`xclusi_ ]on all her; lif e+;. K$a
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]tie, her best fr=^iend and roommate, h _as %_-h_er own f* ;ashion industry a-spir
ations in wanting to be a fashion ed!i!tor, althou+g^h sh e a$dm.[@**its th*_e + +enviro+nment at Look,#)$ t-!he high end :@\f@;#a shion magazi-ne where s*)he w;(orks as a.(@n )=ass]#ist;;\ant, is not a pleasant one ,]in the Edi( tor-in-Ch.%ief\*^ Clau(=/dia Davenport and he /r a$
ssistant Li
za, Ka$=$t`ie's boss, t;[reatin[
g people!] in general^%^, in:
clud?*ing st\)aff, like g]arb\;age unless it oth
+$erwis_e ; serves t;;h?eir n \ eeds. The first day !that Ella helps Ka)(tie with an +^i $)mportant;]/#@ (*fashion/ sh,\:oot at t)[h_e magazine coi),ncides with Derek$ Colby&#,39s firs[(t?
` da^,!y%% ther e, Colby Publi;(=shing, his fa_ ther Roge r ; Co
#^-lby's company,`, th;e m;.[agazine's _pare *nt c/)omp*-any,!?] assigning him +_to dea-^`(l -*^with the magaz[ i?.n`!e'-](s declining re?venues, both in advertising^ and @subscrip,
t=^,i/ons, work he has %_ done :,(with ot[her magazin^%$es ^/.unde[r the^ Colby banner. De\r+(ek secretly asks%^] E)]ll;a f:-or a +!]crash -!cou;@\ r*[ se in fashio[n des\//ign to assist i$n this task- at *#th% :.e maga+:zine, s_he
) h_; is^? choice o*f  teac;_her due to _her k:,nowledge of fas)hion [ i$\%n.  ge* ne*r+%al, and she s.eemingly @
n*ot )=being intimi d*/%)ated b)y hi-m whic\h #`?most pe+/op+%le tend to be in \being a Colby in co!
mbin/ation with his (`_goo=_*%d ,+$loo#!ks result
-ing in he placing= nu=mb+*er*^ s.*\.even of the most e!#;#ligible b,ac*_^h#e=lors i)
n * New Yor)k City. I`+`n !spending time with Ella (, Der)ek ,?can see, th:e  re@[venue poten
;,ti^,.al of the maga#^_\[zi*ne= exp
and?ing into the plus ?_size-`d mark%?et and se .emingly start`:)s to -.@fall for her in the proces] (s ;.in wanting to do one of%# the first arti:%?cles in thi\`@\s vei[n on her desig`n c -areer/, much /*agai`*[+ns+*:t the wishes of both Claudi];a%^ a? nd Liza. Be, y#ond whether Derek is abl` e to change the magazin e's fortunes with this new,).* /\)di_=!rection: , wha/$t hap.$pens( /betw;een Ella a*,nd Derek will depend ^on w=he, t;@^her Ella herself is^![ c)onf);ident en!=ough in herself; an,d Der]e.`k,*. ?wh o generally $can?+ have any woman he wa#nts on.\*= his %arm.—Huggo