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In an incident at London's Covent Garden theatre in 2004, a director fired the then-obese soprano Deborah Voigt from an opera because she could not fit into a "little black cocktail dress", replacing her with the slimmer Anne Schwanewilms

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The dress first gained attention when Cecilia Bleasdale posted a photo on a blog ahead of her daughter Grace's wedding

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