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Hairy, Not Scary: An Exclusive Look at Julien d’Ys’s Met Prep, Photographed by Ilker Akyol

By Laird Borrelli-Persson
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Christian Lacroix is Laird Borrelli-Persson’s fashion raison d’etre; the way he combined romance and historicism set her on the path she is following today. Borrelli-Persson studied literature at Boston College, spending her junior year abroad at Oxford, where she added some art history. After graduation she moved to New York to intern ... Read More
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