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“Is that supposed to be pretty?”“That” was a coat. My coat. The questioner: Dennis Freedman, master of deadpan delivery and, at the time, creative director of W magazine, where we both worked. The coat, which is still in my repertoire more than 20 years later: a floor-sweeping, spliced-together leather shearling with a tribal warrior vibe, aggressive yet oddly elegant in the de- and re-constructed manner of the genre’s genius, Martin Margiela. No, Dennis, it’s not supposed to be pretty. It’s su…
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