A designer named Jerry Lorenzo was introduced to Barney’s buyers when the retailer became bankrupt. He was in Paris at the time. In 2012, Lorenzo was just starting up a clothing line he called Fear of God, but he didn’t yet fully understand how fashion houses and aspiring fashion houses would operate: They would release each collection only at certain agreed-upon intervals. Known mostly for throwing parties in Los Angeles at the time, he was mainly known. His clothing, characterized by a distorted vertical proportion, was mistakenly ...
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