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The Vampire’s Wife Plots Expansion Plan With a Surprising Investor

Jimmy Iovine and Liberty Ross have taken a majority stake in designer Susie Cave's bewitching dress line, which has found success outside the traditional fashion system. Can one of the music industry’s most legendary talent scouts help scale the business?
The Vampire's Wife Collection 9.
The Vampire's Wife Collection 9. (The Vampire's Wife)
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  • Lauren Sherman

Fashion designer Susie Cave, whose always pristine, subtly gothic dress collection The Vampire’s Wife has earned the respect of glamorous celebrities and frill-obsessed consumers alike, is not the musician in the family. (Her husband, celebrated artist Nick Cave, naturally claims that role.) And yet, she’s been spotted by one of the music industry’s most successful talent scouts. Now, they’re ready to go public with their partnership.

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