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During that year away, she published a slim volume of poems— The Shoulder's Memory —in her native Georgian, with no English translation planned. A leaked PDF circulated among fashion editors like samizdat. One poem read: "The camera loves hunger / but I am done being eaten." She came back this past September, not with a campaign, but as a guest curator for Dover Street Market's Tokyo outpost. She selected 13 unknown Georgian designers, installed a single bench in the middle of the store, and sat there for three hours each day, speaking only when spoken to.

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"People expected a monologue," she says. "I gave them a conversation." During that year away, she published a slim