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Article: What's new, Buenos Aires? Don't cry for the "Paris of South America." She's rebounded after a peso plummet and is as sophisticated and stylish as ever.(Transport)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- October 26, 2004
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The first time I met Gabriel Miremont, the gay curator of the Museo Evita, he told me a mysterious story of a late night ironing one of Evita Peron's dresses for a display. "There was suddenly this sweet smell, but I thought I was imagining it," he said. Each time he worked with her clothes it surrounded him, as if the ghost of Evita herself were haunting him. He mentioned it to her surviving sister, thinking she would assume he was crazy. A few days later she returned with an old bottle of Evita's perfume. It's now in the museums collection, the scent no longer a mystery, its secrets unlocked after lying dormant for half a century. But as it was with the scent of Evita's ...