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World Service,1 min

The iconic Frida Kahlo dress

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Fashion curator and Kahlo scholar Circe Henestrosa tells Bridget Kendall why the traditional dress from a matriarchal society in southern Mexico meant so much to the celebrated painter. Photo: Frida Kahlo (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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