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Fashion's Old Guard Stays on Patrol

Emma Clark

20 March 2013

"The issue is likely to become a central one for increasing numbers of European and American clothing labels, as a generation of designers in their 70s and 80s prepares to retire. Several of fashion's most prominent founders are hitting retirement age, including

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