Avery Trufelman

And was she wearing heels when she touched down at the Portland airport?

She always wore heels and always wore pearls with her blonde hair chopped in a chic bob.

Oh, and she always carried a purebred, long-haired American Kennel Club dachshund with her.

Linda remembers she had one named Nifofia, which is a flower.

I had to look it up.

Linda tried to roll out the red carpet as best she could.

She took Susan to the only place you could eat out for dinner, which was a truck stop across the river called Jack's Fine Foods.

And when Linda took Susan to the Maryhill Museum to see the Teatro de la Mode, Susan adored it.

She could see past the grime and the mismatched outfits and recognize what it once had been.

And she looked at the Teatro de la Mode and she fell in love.

It was kind of love at first sight.

And there was another love blossoming between Linda and Susan.

Not in a romantic way.

I mean, how could you not be completely taken with this glamorous person?

It's the same thing that drew 100,000 starving French people to stare at the Théâtre de la Meade.

Glamour and luxury are powerful.

Susan knew she had to bring these mannequins back to Paris to revive the Théâtre de la Mode back to its former glory.

She went back to Paris and got busy.

Susan did her Paris Condé Nast bureau chief thing and pulled together an elite team to refurbish the Théâtre de la Mode.

This was a team effort from a crew of set designers, clothiers, and historians.