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Avril Lavigne on the Backpack of Ties That Helped Shape Her Signature Style and Greatest Hits Tour (Exclusive)

When it comes to not compromising personal style, Avril Lavigne is the blueprint.

"I remember playing my first concert at a little club and looking out the window and seeing fans lined up down the street all dressed like me -- tank top, necktie, straight hair, black eyes -- and I was just like, I had to do a double take like, 'Wait, what is going on here?'" "I would show up to a photo shoot with a book bag with all my spiked bracelets and ties and a couple shirts and they definitely wanted me to wear the clothes that they had there," she recalled. Please, I don't want to wear that,' so it was a bit of a fight, but some people were cool about it, so I would just take my book bag, dump it on the floor, and just be like, 'But see, I came with this stuff,' but that's not how it works.

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