Tell me this: if you were a filmmaker casting, say, a James Bond film, and there was a role for a “shadowy whistle-blower” whom governments think is terribly dangerous but who is smooth enough to talk (and slip) his way out of almost any jam, who is a sort of popular hero just elegant enough to be threatening, would he or would he not ressemble Julian Assange?
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Vanessa has been the FT’s fashion editor since 2003, and is based in New York, though she lived in London for 12 years.