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    THE LANE LESS TRAVELLED

    Oct 12, 2018 3 minutes

    by david smiedt

    Diane Lane wouldn’t give you the time of day. Although her parents’ families are from Georgia — dad was a drama coach and mom a delightful slashie (centrefold/nightclub singer) — Lane, a New Yorker, has forever radiated a coolly detached East Coast soignée. Decades before the likes of Lana Del Rey jumped on the preppy bandwagon, Lane was mainlining the kind of J.Crew imperiousness and hauteur with which, at best, she’d mistake you for a valet and toss you the keys to her car before turning on a Sergio Rossi heel, making her way into

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