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As a student, I worked in an optician's shop. The shop had rows of glasses from the epoch-making French-Armenian eyewear designer Alain Mikli. I never took people who were going to wear glasses for the first time here. I could have risked them running out of the shop, terrified. Mikli glasses were also a couple of thousand kroner more expensive than many of the other glasses. So I often ended up just leading the customer to the vibrant shapes an…