How to Use fashion plate in a Sentence
fashion plate
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That’s the kind of self-assuredness that fashion plates tend to have in common.
—Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2023
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Lambert has his finger on the pulse and transforms any client into a real fashion plate.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 17 Dec. 2024
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The red and white color combination on her hull gives her a distinct look, as does her glass fashion plate.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 18 Aug. 2023
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Always the fashion plate, the model stepped out in a polished fall look that broke a long-standing color rule.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2023
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Beware of the consequences of making your daughter a fashion plate.
—Katherine Manuel, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
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And speaking of watches, football’s fashion plate has another new one.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019
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Leave it to Head to deliver us Shirley MacLaine as a fashion plate.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2019
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My friends’ captions, loaded with exclamation points, hailed the budding fashion plate as their queen.
—Janet Mock, Marie Claire, 6 Aug. 2018
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Her sophisticated nod to Stone singles her out as a fashion plate with something to say yet again.
—Alice Newbold, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2022
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Moves up to the front and looks over at the soundboard, standing at the back almost alone, a fashion plate in his sky blue mohair cardigan and plum wide-legged pants.
—Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
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Here, nine shape-shifting looks that paved the way—and continue to do so—for modern-day fashion plates daring to do things differently.
—Vogue, 31 Dec. 2024
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Just a few days later, she was seen wearing the viral platform Ugg boots–a style adored by Gen-Z fashion plates.
—Alex Kessler, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2024
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George wore a sleek three-piece navy suit with a crisp button-up and black dress shoes, while Amal—ever the fashion plate—chose a slinky slip dress worthy of such an event.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2022
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The hue was unexpected, even for a fashion plate like Middleton, and an ideal marker for the arrival of spring.
—Maria Ward, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2018
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The fashion plate of the offensive line is Max Garcia, teammate Josh Jones said.
—José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 9 Dec. 2022
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Blair is a world famous actress, someone with MS, a goofball, a beauty buff, a fashion plate, and a fierce mother.
—Keah Brown, Town & Country, 19 Apr. 2021
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For starters, the yacht is equipped with transparent fashion plates that allow natural light to fill the sprawling four-deck interior.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2023
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Margot Robbie has gone from Chanel darling to daring fashion plate in a relatively short space of time.
—Alice Newbold, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2024
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But model and all-around fashion plate Lourdes Leon has figured out how to balance out a psychedelic piece.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2020
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Emma Frost, always a fashion plate, had no less than three outfits, all of them as daring as her usual cleavage-baring costumes.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 3 July 2021
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Dizi Sara is an institution [in Tehran] with an owner who is straight out of a 1970’s fashion plate.
—Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2017
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Make no mistake, Garretson does get to play MacGraw as a fashion plate, but there’s much more to the character than that.
—Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 10 May 2022
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Few men in Hollywood are as much of a fashion plate as Timothée Chalamet is.
—Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2020
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Robert is warm and voluble, with a fringe of steel-gray hair and baggy jeans; Michelle, who is sixty, is more of a fashion plate, in leather boots and hip tortoiseshell glasses.
—Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
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Deven Kolluri plays Pontius Pilate as a smooth, smoldering fashion plate.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026
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Many of the original French fashion plates, considered passing fancies in their day, have been lost to time, so to see the real specimens up close is a true treat indeed.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
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The fashion plate showed off an off-the-shoulder top, Tabi Mary Jane shoes with bobby socks, and a furry belt that was strapped into her divisive yet chic jorts.
—Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 18 June 2022
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The fashion plate was honored at the WWD Style Awards with the Fashion Icon Award.
—Jackie Fields, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
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An army of Fairbanks replicas - courtesy of the Neal Hamil Agency - modeled the fashion plate's most notable get-ups from galas past.
—Amber Elliott, Houston Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2018
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From Figueroa, head east along Alpine Street to Broadway, past grandmas pushing strollers and teenage fashion plates walking the promenade.
—Jordan Michelman, latimes.com, 21 June 2019
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