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Dover Street Market Reimagines the Model for Mission-Based Brands

The Comme des Garçons-backed retailer is adding Dan Colen’s Sky High Farm to its Dover Street Market Paris brand incubator and asking stakeholders across the value chain, from suppliers to retailers, to donate a portion of their profits to fight food insecurity.
Connor Holloway wearing Raymond Pettibon. Jack Pierson.
Connor Holloway wearing Raymond Pettibon. Jack Pierson.
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In 2011, Gagosian-represented painter Dan Colen founded Sky High Farm, a not-for-profit working farm in upstate New York, to help address food insecurity in the United States, where 35.2 million people live in households that lack adequate nutrition, according to a 2019 USDA report.

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