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Photographed by Harry Benson, Vogue, March 19971/3From left: LADY LUCK: New York’s tabloids could hardly believe their good fortune when 23-year-old Niki Barkoutsis of Queens hit the Lotto jackpot. Niki Barkoutsis receives star treatment from star hairstylist Stephen Knoll. THINK PINK: With yards of rose chiffon for inspiration, Niki Barkoutsis does her best impersonation of Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face for Bill Blass, who calls this particular hue “chewing-gum pink.”
Photographed by Harry Benson, Vogue, March 19972/3THE NEW GLITTERATI: A beaded paisley slip dress is made for one thing—dancing. Niki Barkoutsis shows Marc Jacobs some fancy footwork.
Photographed by Harry Benson, Vogue, March 19973/3From left: INDEPENDENT DAY: Designer turned chaperone Michael Kors keeps an eye on his two young charges, Niki Barkoutsis and actor Brad Beyer, a rising star soon to be seen alongside Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel in Copland. Barkoutsis takes Tribeca’s Independent by storm in Kors’s black halter bodysuit. SOHO CHIC: Victor Alfaro shows Barkoutsis his trademark soft tailoring as he helps her into a French leather jacket to be worn over his cocoa jersey slip dress.