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Lauren discusses the impact of luxury industry consolidation on creativity in fashion with journalist Eugene Rabkin.

Lauren’s guest is journalist Eugene Rabkin, author of Torn: Fashion and Post-Modernism, which argues that the consolidation of the luxury industry has destroyed creativity in fashion. They debate whether Virgil Abloh was a genius or a villain, the proliferation of “nice” clothes, whether there are solutions the fashion system’s problems, and plenty more.

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