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The New Yorker takes a long look at online outfit-making website Polyvore in its new style issue. Polyvore lets users grab images of clothing from anywhere on the Internet and group them together on cute little inspiration boards—a process that turns out to make a marketing person hired by LVMH kind of nervous. "Now, if somebody does something really horrible and totally inappropriate with our products, can you filter it out?" she asks the Polyvore people. "Say it's just hideous and junky-looking?" Luckily, Polyvore handles the problem by pointing out that sometimes people invent hideous outfits in real life, too. [New Yorker]