{"id":15880,"date":"2011-04-17T18:32:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T16:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/?p=15880"},"modified":"2011-04-17T18:32:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T16:32:46","slug":"french-woman-carine-roitfeld-knows-sensuality-not-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/fashion-luxury-industry\/french-woman-carine-roitfeld-knows-sensuality-not-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"French Woman Carine Roitfeld Knows Sensuality Is Not a Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In February <a title=\"Emmanuelle Alt &amp; Nudity | Will Vogue Paris Remain A Sensual Beacon?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anneofcarversville.com\/body-politics\/emmanuelle-alt-nudity-will-vogue-paris-remain-a-sensual-beac.html\" target=\"_blank\">Emmanuelle Alt<\/a>, new editor-in-chief of VOGUE Paris, talked to VOGUE US about her plans for the magazine.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMore French girls, more French lifestyle\u2026 . I always want a relationship with reality: nothing too sexy or provocative or fashion victim. Even I love to dream, I want the magazine to feature a girl who looks like she belongs in real life. We are French \u2014 we can show smoking, nudity. We have no boundaries, and it can be good to have them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anneofcarversville.com\/body-politics\/emmanuelle-alt-nudity-will-vogue-paris-remain-a-sensual-beac.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anneofcarversville.com\/storage\/Espaol-Esteban-2011-02-06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"699\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marta Espa\u00f1ol photographed by Santiago Esteban for Elle Russia, February 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nMy heart dropped when I read Alt\u2019s words. In the global fight to  control women\u2019s bodies, France as a nation and Carine Roitfeld as VOGUE Paris editor-in-chief and sensual libertine have said \u2018no deal\u2019 to tsk-tsk talk  that modesty is always a woman\u2019s best virtue.<br \/>\nInterviewed recently by SPIEGEL, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sensualitynews.com\/living\/fashion-icon-carine-roitfeld-talks-life-creativity-business.html\" target=\"_blank\">Roitfeld said<\/a> that fashion doesn\u2019t let  people dream any more. Defending some of her bolder journeys into  provocation, we hear a vintage Roitfeld response to being called the  woman who invented &#8216;porn chic&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, of course. Fashion has to be given free rein and only a small number of restrictions. I never used any photos that my children shouldn&#8217;t see; that was my benchmark. The little girls wearing makeup were never naked; it said &#8220;No Smoking&#8221; under the pregnant woman; and why shouldn&#8217;t old people kiss? You must be allowed to play. Anything else is terribly boring. I&#8217;ve also painted white models black and later red, which (the French anti-racist NGO) SOS Racisme complained about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did women strip in every issue of Carine Roitfeld\u2019s French fashion and style manifesto? Not really. Did an element of provocation hang in the editorial air? Always. Did Roitfeld cause an appropriate reader meter gasp on occasion?<br \/>\nOf course &#8212; it was her job as editor of VOGUE Paris.<br \/>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sensualitynews.com\/living\/lara-stone-mario-sorrenti-vogue-paris-february-2011.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sensualitynews.com\/storage\/stone-sorrenti-2011-02-01.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1296500212503\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"664\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lara Stone lensed by Mario Sorrenti for Vogue Paris February 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAt 94, the famous French sculptor Louise Bourgeois was making waves in Seattle a few years back, with the unveiling of her naked father and son fountain. This &#8216;decadent&#8217; artist woman actually embroidered a handkerchief with the memorable reflection: \u201cI have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>X-Rated French Metro Station<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In January 2008 I attended the erotic exhibit &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anneofcarversville.com\/sensuality\/french-corruption-of-american-morality.html?\" target=\"_blank\">Hell at the Library. Eros in Secret<\/a>&#8216;. A huge, multi-story X-mark lit up the side of the National Library, inviting all of Paris to partake in its erotic pleasures.<br \/>\nCan you imagine American tax payer funds being used to doll up a metro station, announcing the coming arrival of a sex exhibit? Just a decade ago, US Attorney General John Ashcroft ordered that the Spirit of Justice&#8217;s right breast be covered in the nation&#8217;s capital.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anneofcarversville.com\/storage\/2808Paris%20metro%20station.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1302916147057\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nIn Paris, the collection of 350 sexually explicit literary works, manuscripts, engravings, lithographs, photographs, film clips, book covers, even calling cards and cardboard pop-ups told a very different story about erotica through the ages.<br \/>\nErotic imaginations continued to fuel European minds centuries ago, while witches, branded as lusty for a taste of Satan\u2019s penis, burned at the stake. \u2028\u2028Tales of naughty nuns, lustful women, and detailed illustrations of men pleasuring the private parts of noble women defied the lie that only modern civilization is morally corrupt.<br \/>\nConservatives in all religions say that feminists and independent women  have joined the pornographers in destroying the culture with our  skin-baring ways.<br \/>\nConsulting on a high-end erotic website a few years, I  personally studied the locations of our viewers\u00a0 based on ip addresses.  Mesa, Arizona &#8212; upscale home of America&#8217;s largest Mormon community &#8212;\u00a0  topped New York; Greenwich, Connecticut; and London.<br \/>\nHuman\u2019s pursuit of the erotic is ageless and Roitfeld understands this reality.<br \/>\nCarine Roitfeld\u2018s VOGUE Paris existed in alignment with the Paris French metro station, Louise Bourgeois and Hell at the Library. At times she used the pages of Vogue Paris as a lens to life behind closed doors, the sensual fantasies of a nation and a world interested in watching them.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Vogue Paris April 2011 Issue<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Emmanuelle Alt cannot be judged on her first issue of VOGUE Paris, which was a bitter disappointment for me.<br \/>\nThe April issue feels like Marie Claire or Madame Figaro, safe and secure and perhaps not as well executed. Madame Figaro can take a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anneofcarversville.com\/style-photos\/benoit-peverelli-paradise-nuptiale-madame-le-figaro-january.html\" target=\"_blank\">bourgeois concept like weddings<\/a>, and present an editorial with artistic drama. There was little drama in the April issue of VOGUE, Paris.<br \/>\nDid I say demure? Yes, the debut issue was definitely demure. Vogue Paris, formerly the global beacon of sensuality, seems to be hopping on board with the Republicans, telling women to put away the hot pants and zip up like good girls.<br \/>\nWhy is this abrupt change necessary? All reports about Roitfeld\u2019s financial performance as editor in chief are that she produced significant revenue increases for the title, which has a circulation around 130,000, but much bigger global influence.<br \/>\nEven if Alt wants to pursue a more discrete sensual vision for her VOGUE Paris &#8212; which is her right&#8211; there are clever ways to do it, without resorting to prim and proper. There was no real twist in her first issue of VOGUE Paris, nothing out of line, not a bit of Diana Vreeland-inspired revolt &#8212; with one exception.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anneofcarversville.com\/storage\/isabeli-fontana-david-sims-vogue-paris-april-2011-08.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1300910339809\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nOnly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anneofcarversville.com\/style-photos\/isabeli-fontana-david-sims-wanted-vogue-paris-april-2011.html\" target=\"_blank\">Isabeli Fontana, lensed<\/a> by David Sims in \u2018Wanted\u2019 had an ounce of strong editorial character and drama. There was no nudity, but I loved the editorial, writing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don\u2019t care about the fashion just this minute . I want to bottle Isabeli\u2019s spirit in the fight to retain our rights as women in America, while the Egyptian women form their own political party before they all end up under burqas. I may pack this image in my pocket, given the fact that I don\u2019t pack a pistol like Sarah Palin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anneofcarversville.com\/style-photos\/isabeli-fontana-david-sims-wanted-vogue-paris-april-2011.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Wanted\u2019<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anneofcarversville.com\/style-photos\/isabeli-fontana-david-sims-wanted-vogue-paris-april-2011.html\"><\/a> an American Western Grapes of Wrath Bonnie &amp; Clyde editorial was a home run.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anneofcarversville.com\/living\/gisele-bundchen-inez-vinoodh-vogue-paris-april-2011.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gisele B\u00fcndchen<\/a>was milk toast and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anneofcarversville.com\/sensuality\/must-emmanuelle-alts-french-vogue-lose-all-its-sensual-soul.html\">Siri Tollerod <\/a>downright chaste. I, too, am happy to see <a href=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/2011\/04\/16\/emmanuelle-alt-hans-feurer-vogue-paris\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hans Feurer in Vogue Paris<\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sensualitynews.com\/living\/anja-rubik-hans-feurer-immaculee-seduction-vogue-paris-april.html\" target=\"_blank\">Anja Rubik in &#8216;Immacul\u00e9e S\u00e9duction<\/a>&#8216; hardly looks like a Feurer woman. The very name of the editorial summed up the new mood of VOGUE Paris under Alt.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 503px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anneofcarversville.com\/storage\/Screen%20shot%202011-04-17%20at%2011.16.24%20AM.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1303053654133\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"273\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hans Feurer images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I don&#8217;t buy the argument that VOGUE Paris must look like the work of fashion bloggers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The challenge is one of editorial balance and VOGUE Paris should be in the lead, executing better than other fashion media and for heavens sake, fashion bloggers and independent artists, who are doing a great job in many cases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">VOGUE Paris must excel above indy talent or the magazine has a big hiccup long-term. Just this week I posted five works that blew me away artistically, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anneofcarversville.com\/style-photos\/andrej-pejic-dark-narcissus-by-alexander-hankoff-a-masterpie.html\" target=\"_blank\">Andrej Pejic&#8217;s &#8216;Dark Narcissus&#8217;<\/a> by Alexander Hankoff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Andrej and Alexander, and the entire creative team, delivered one of the strongest 2:20 minutes of my career in fashion. Indy talent is making their own publications, editorials and strong fashion statements. As a businessperson, I disagree that this is the moment for VOGUE Paris to go real and mainstream, because indy creative talent is raising the editorial bar quickly.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>VOGUE Paris Doesn&#8217;t Need a Fashion Burqa<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For me fashion and politics are inseparable, and I know that many French women don&#8217;t agree. Yes, Karl Lagerfeld calls his shades his burqa, but for millions of women, burqas are not a glamorous fashion accessory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reflecting on the April issue of Vogue Paris, I said &#8216;basta&#8217;. This is the country that has outlawed burqas and all other face coverings for women and men in public. What is with all this purity, even reflected in the titles of editorials?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019m tired of the accusations that the French burqa debate is solely about Nicholas Sarkozy appeasing the nationalists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For all the naysayers who argue that burqas are a matter of free choice, just today the Muslim Council of Britain said that not covering the face is a \u2018shortcoming\u2019 and suggested that any Muslims who advocate being uncovered could be guilty of rejecting Islam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement published on its website the MCB, warns: &#8220;We advise all Muslims to exercise extreme caution on this issue, since denying any part of Islam may lead to disbelief.\u2019 Translated: Muslim women, get under your burqas and keep quiet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The majority of Muslim women who make the case for wearing burqas are Western women converts to Islam who explain that it\u2019s liberating not being a sex object all day long. That may be true, but don\u2019t tell me that millions of women worldwide willing choose to wear their burqas. In Saudi Arabia, you can still be stoned to death for showing a glimpse of ankle.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anneofcarversville.com\/storage\/Lubna%20Hussein%20speaks%20in%20France.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1259085131381\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lubna Hussein speaks at press conference with French Minister Bernard Kouchner, Nov 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve been involved in international women&#8217;s rights for some time now and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anneofcarversville.com\/world\/while-the-world-debates-burqas-fashion-designers-show-beauti.html\">burqa debate is not new for me.<\/a> When journalist Lubna Hussein, facing a flogging in Sudan for wearing too tight trousers, fled Sudan into Egypt under a burqa in a moment of poetic justice, where did she go? To Paris, where she was welcomed by the government and given refuge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eight Arab men came to me for help in Lubna&#8217;s case. I expressed concerns that perhaps my writing could hurt Lubna, because I embrace sexuality so positively. &#8216;No, Anne. We want you just the way you are,&#8217; they said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I understand and respect Emmanuelle Alt\u2019s comments about the importance of boundaries, especially in today\u2019s global world. BUT, I hope that she doesn\u2019t shy away from the nudity too often, because the French are leaders in standing up for women\u2019s sexuality. Yes, French women have justifiable complaints about their own culture, but France is miles ahead of the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The religious battle over women\u2019s bodies is gearing up as never before and western women are being damned, too. While the Vatican investigates American nuns for being too permissive, Congress debates a new abortion-health care provision that will allow American women entitled to a legal abortion to die in an emergency ward, if the hospital or physician doesn\u2019t want to perform an abortion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Utah legislature passed a law making miscarriage a felony, and thankfully the governor vetoed it without enough votes for an override. South Dakota backed down from a law that would have allowed a husband to kill his wife for assisting their daughter in getting a legal abortion, calling his crime justifiable homicide.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>France As a Beacon of Sensual Liberty<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Having spent endless time in France in my career, I know that French women are among the most well-balanced creatures on the planet. With significant freedoms and a spiritual attachment to religion, French women are leaders in international women\u2019s rights activism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because she\u2019s less defined in her own head by patriarchal forces than American women are, French women are freer to follow their own paths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In writing these words, I don\u2019t dismiss the challenges that French women still have in their pursuit of equality. But I feel strongly that French women must push the body politics issues forward against the growing religious forces that are determined to control women\u2019s bodies permanently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In all my years in France, I had only one episode that was sexually shocking in a country with so much sexual freedom. The vast majority of French women are discreet and already exhibit significant restraint in their relationships with sex, food and\u00a0 everyday living.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Is French Culture Changing?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--  \/* Font Definitions *\/ @font-face \t{font-family:\"Times New Roman\"; \tpanose-1:0 2 2 6 3 5 4 5 2 3; \tmso-font-charset:0; \tmso-generic-font-family:auto; \tmso-font-pitch:variable; \tmso-font-signature:50331648 0 0 0 1 0;}  \/* Style Definitions *\/ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal \t{mso-style-parent:\"\"; \tmargin:0in; \tmargin-bottom:.0001pt; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:12.0pt; \tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";} p \t{margin-right:0in; \tmso-margin-top-alt:auto; \tmso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; \tmargin-left:0in; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:10.0pt; \tfont-family:Times;} table.MsoNormalTable \t{mso-style-parent:\"\"; \tfont-size:10.0pt; \tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";} @page Section1 \t{size:8.5in 11.0in; \tmargin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; \tmso-header-margin:.5in; \tmso-footer-margin:.5in; \tmso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 \t{page:Section1;} -->Karl Lagerfeld says that fashion is tired of nudity, but I say we must press on tastefully and with purpose beyond sexual titillation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In November 2010, <a title=\"Eniko Gets Her Rocks on at NOWNESS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sensualitynews.com\/living\/new-eroticism-nowness-eniko-gets-her-rocks-on.html\" target=\"_blank\">LVMH NOWNESS<\/a> published a nude Eniko Mihalik in &#8216;Eniko Gets Her Rocks On&#8217;, so I don\u2019t buy the argument that Bernard Arnault objects to nude provocation in VOGUE Paris. Did he raise a tastefulness question about the December issue? Perhaps.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sensualitynews.com\/storage\/filter\/NOWNESS-2-11-3-10.png?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1288787301655\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019ve rejected Terry Richardson\u2019s photography always, and I know that Carine Roitfeld advanced him. We can\u2019t agree on everything.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Richardson\u2019s \u2018every woman wants to be a porn star\u2019 mantra is now openly  rejected by young people and most people in fashion. Opposing  Richardson\u2019s pornified approach to sexy editorials is easy when other  photographers are expressing nudity \u2013 not with a frat boy mentality \u2013  but with beauty and artistry.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At Yale University last October, pledges of Delta Kappa Epsilon\u2019s fraternity that has produced five American presidents, walked towards the Yale Women\u2019s Center chanting \u2018No means yes, yes means anal. Fucking sluts. My name is Jack, I\u2019m a necrophilliac, I fuck dead women and fill them with my semen.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Terry Richardson&#8217;s mind, this is just boys having fun, right? It&#8217;s a harmless bit of fun at women&#8217;s expense at America&#8217;s premier university, dedicated to cultivating our future masters of the universe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this global battle for women\u2019s bodies, Carine Roitfeld is my rock of  Gibralter, the editorial heroine of the fight that lies ahead for women everywhere  and especially in America, where the Conservative tide is turning  against women.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If American women lose our rights, I can&#8217;t imagine how Arab women will gain theirs. Roitfeld has been a torch bearer for women, and I want her vision continued &#8212; if adapted &#8212; under Emmanuelle Alt as editor of Vogue Paris.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vogue Paris is now an international publication, one that could advance French influence and attitudes about women&#8217;s emancipation worldwide, especially if Conde Nast would consider the unthinkable and publish it in multiple languages online.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I don\u2019t need Emmanuelle Alt to show me women\u2019s everyday reality; I need her to show women a way out of it, expressing with reassurance what French women know about living, loving and pushing the sensual envelope at every age \u2013 because they really do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is no need for a significant course correction in the number of bosoms displayed in Vogue Paris.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anneofcarversville.com\/storage\/Laduree-Sephora.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1278970604541\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"514\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>VOGUE Paris has been a beacon of hope for thinking women, and I pray that it becomes even stronger in communicating the lifestyle of <strong>Smart Sensuality<\/strong> women who are sexy, intelligent, spiritual and at peace with our bodies, embracing a positive sensuality from food to flowers and yes, sexuality, too.<br \/>\n<!--  \/* Font Definitions *\/ @font-face \t{font-family:\"Times New Roman\"; \tpanose-1:0 2 2 6 3 5 4 5 2 3; \tmso-font-charset:0; \tmso-generic-font-family:auto; \tmso-font-pitch:variable; \tmso-font-signature:50331648 0 0 0 1 0;}  \/* Style Definitions *\/ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal \t{mso-style-parent:\"\"; \tmargin:0in; \tmargin-bottom:.0001pt; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:12.0pt; \tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";} p \t{margin-right:0in; \tmso-margin-top-alt:auto; \tmso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; \tmargin-left:0in; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:10.0pt; \tfont-family:Times;} table.MsoNormalTable \t{mso-style-parent:\"\"; \tfont-size:10.0pt; \tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";} @page Section1 \t{size:8.5in 11.0in; \tmargin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; \tmso-header-margin:.5in; \tmso-footer-margin:.5in; \tmso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 \t{page:Section1;} -->Emmanuelle Alt should not dismiss this strength in the character of French women with her own editorial burqa. Sensuality is not a sin, and French women are leaders worldwide in spreading this critical gospel.<br \/>\n<strong>Anne<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February Emmanuelle Alt, new editor-in-chief of VOGUE Paris, talked to VOGUE US about her plans for the magazine. \u201cMore French girls, more French lifestyle\u2026 . I always want a relationship with reality: nothing too sexy or provocative or fashion victim. Even I love to dream, I want the magazine to feature a girl who looks like she belongs in real life. We are French \u2014 we can show smoking, nudity. 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