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Op-Ed | Nobody Knows Anything: Moving Beyond Fashion’s Closed Loop

In the Internet era, designers can be the architects of the conversation with the customer, putting them in control and freeing them from fashion’s closed loop of sameness, argues Lawrence Lenihan.
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  • Lawrence Lenihan

NEW YORK, United States —

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