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THE QUEEN CONQUERS FASHION

IN A BLACK CROP TOP and leggings, padding around her house during a wardrobe fitting, Nicki Minaj is a low-key host. So laid-back, in fact, that as she offers everyone water, it’s hard not to think, “Did I really just meet the Nicki Minaj?” But to see her the next day, as she dramatically poses for Steven Klein’s camera, is to Get It. Flanked by male models, she’s wearing a pink swimsuit that curves around her body like a NASCAR track and a matching hooded jacket. She is transformed. She is Queen. She is, to quote the

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