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To say Miss Piggy is having a moment would be inaccurate. Since the mid-1970s, she’s been a cultural icon, bridging the gap between comedy and the world of fashion. She’s been dressed by Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Vivienne Westwood, and Zac Posen, among others. She has reported from New Year’s Eve ceremonies and written a best-selling book. She even appeared on the cover of our magazine in 2011. But right now, Miss Piggy is our last woman movie star. “She is part of a lineage that has gone dormant: larger-than-life, carefully curated personas bolstered both by their market value at the box office and by how their sheer artistry shapes the texts that end up on the silver screen,” critic Angelica Jade Bastién writes. “These are women like Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, and Mae West. During their reign in Hollywood’s Golden Age, their lives and cinematic work played out ideals about femininity and its expectations in American culture writ large. It’s a legacy Miss Piggy carries on.” Bastién speaks with some of the people who’ve had a hand in crafting the “delightful contradictions” of Miss Piggy’s image, examines how she carries on the legacy of women like Elizabeth Taylor and Mae West, and unpacks the “bittersweet undercurrent” of her fame: nymag.visitlink.me/h2POdZ