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Backstage, it’s down to bare essentials

For a fashion writer the atmosphere at fashion shows is weirdly unerotic — which is a surprise, given that the rooms backstage are full of beautiful unclad men and women

By Guy Trebay  /  NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , NEW YORK

As Kloss said that, as if on cue, the Polish model Magdalena Frackowiak wandered into view in a G-string and with her arms modestly wrapped around her bare torso. “I was raised as a small kid in the theater,” explained Frackowiak, who just turned 24. “So, for me, doing modeling is a little bit like being in a play. And being backstage is like every backstage, where you’re changing costumes and you have to be nude and so what?”

What is the point of being prudish, as the model Chad White once told me before a Duckie Brown show. At the time, White was barefoot and wearing a postage stamp bikini. When asked whether it wasn’t embarrassing to parade nearly buck naked in front of so many strangers, he laughed. “You should see what they put me in on the runway at Dolce & Gabbana,” White said. “Compared to that, right now I’m wearing a lot.”

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