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All dressed up, a lot of places to go

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IF you were granted three wishes, the first should be to have Ms Winnie Kwan's job. The second should be to have her wardrobe. And, to complete the dream, the third should be to have her problems.

It was Easter Monday, and super trim Ms Kwan was wearing her ''holiday fun clothes'' - black ski pants and bolero jacket with an elegant grey ruff and detachable ostrich plumes at the neck. She wouldn't have looked out of place at a swank nightclub.

For that matter, this petite woman wouldn't have looked out of place anywhere fashionable in the world - and just as well, really.

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As manager and buyer of women's fashions for Seibu, elegant, smiling Ms Kwan has an office which spans the globe. She spends a third of her life travelling, contemplating winter woollies while others in Hongkong begin to think of summer tans.

Her job description could be to go shopping and spend lots (and lots ) of money on very (very ) expensive clothes by designers such as Jean Louis Scherrer, Kenzo, Issay Miyake, Jean Paul Gaultier and Helen Storey.

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It's a job which involves international shopping sprees, running up unimaginable bills in the markets of London, Milan, Paris, Florence, New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo.

The problems which go with the territory are ones we would all like to have.

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