fashion plate

Example Sentences

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It was Margaret, the rebel, who was renowned as a fashion plate in Dior and other designers, and her influence on Elizabeth was tangible.

From Seattle Times • May 26, 2022

Nan Kempner sat nearby and so, too, did the fashion plate and philanthropist Judith Peabody, crowned with her signature bouffant nimbus.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2022

Barbie Gilbert is no Pamela Anderson look-alike or a celebrity fashion plate, as earlier Barbie iterations usually were.

From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2021

A drab housewife becomes a Paris fashion plate, then meets her ex-husband.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2021

I fiddle with the curly mass of my bangs and slouch down, feeling like the plainest girl ever next to the fashion plate that is Katherine Deveraux.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland