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What Does the American Dream Look Like Today?

On the first three days of New York Fashion Week, runways full of perfectly respectable clothes were punctuated by flashes of something more eloquent, writes Lynn Yaeger.
Willy Chavarria Autumn/Winter 2024.
Willy Chavarria Autumn/Winter 2024. (Spotlight/Launchmetrics.com)

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Lynn Yaeger

Lynn Yaeger is a contributing writer at The Business of Fashion. Yaeger is a highly respected American journalist who has written about fashion for 3 decades.

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