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...“We had Derek Lam, Proenza [Schouler], Thakoon, Peter Som — those were our great young designer brands. A lot of them are gone.”...
...Derek Lam, for example, pared his trademark sportswear down to its essence in camel capes, navy and white satin T-shirts with sailor pants and simple tunic dresses with crochet trim – all almost determinedly...
...Derek Lam’s 1950s rigorously understated dresses are accomplished, but still look a bit too much like other people’s clothes, while Alexander Wang’s sporty-jokey-streety separates felt like they were done...
...Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen at The Row provided yet another version of long, languid loungewear – the sortthat makes older women look cool, and youngsters look sophisticated....
...super-luxurious materials (no one can make a suede shirt look as ineffably expensive as Kors), and then united by a theme, such as this season’s African safari, aka a lot of animal prints and tie-dye; at Derek...
...Stall Points: Most Companies Stop Growing – Yours Doesn’t Have To By Matthew Olsen and Derek Van Bever Yale University Press, $27.50 How refreshing....
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