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The standards of beauty set by Michelangelo and da Vinci could have shaped society’s understanding of the ‘ideal body’ for the very best a part of 600 years, but fashion designers now look like hawking yet one more unrealistic expectation – travelling further into the recesses of Greco-Roman culture and casting the centaur as a recent symbol of thoroughbred sexuality. It is not any longer enough to be athletic, lean, skinny! Fashion fans must sprout an additional pair of legs, hooves, and a giant ol’ buccaneering tail.  Over the past yr, now we have seen Adam Driver sprinting towards the ocean in a Burberry campaign, his body metamorphosing right into a broad-chested, half-man-half-horse figure. Then there was Julia Fox in a...