Tanya Ling, illustrator of languid ladies for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar and painter of campaigns for Jil Sander and Givenchy, had entertained a crazy notion that she could 'be like the Wizard of Oz hiding behind a vast empire, making these moves with no one seeing me'. But when behemoth New York department store Henri Bendel filled its Fifth Avenue windows with her first collection and surrounded them with huge blow-ups of her illustrations, everyone wanted a piece of her. Life as a recluse has been put very much on hold.
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