When Rebekah Marine glided down the runway as part of New York Fashion Week in February 2015, she wore a short, slinky dress, silver body paint, and a right arm that was clearly a high-tech prosthesis. She wasn’t the only model that day who looked unexpectedly different. There were women rolling out in wheelchairs, a young man walking on a carbon fiber prosthetic leg, and a teenage girl with Down syndrome. It was a revolutionary moment in the world of high fashion, a domain that traditionally views beauty through the lens of physical perfection.
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