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In Sean Baker‘s Palme d’Or-winning “Anora,” Mikey Madison‘s titular Ani goes through a whirlwind evolution as she’s swept from the club where she makes a living as a sex worker to the palatial mansion of the weed-smoking, video-game playing, inexplicably charming Ivan, the prodigal son to a billionaire Russian oligarch. Throughout the film, she lives out her own modern-day Cinderella story on the gritty streets of Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach.
It’s Ani’s clothing that perhaps most clearly demarcates her transformation from hustling stripper to designer-clad darling. In telling
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