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Around the Design World in 180 Words: Designers Make Good Edition

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By Stephanie Murg

  • Longtime Barneys New York creative director Simon Doonan, he of the rapier wit, Liberty-print shirts, and Slate column, has a new title at the department store: creative ambassador-at-large, which sounds a smidge redundant, as ambassadors tend to be defined by their at-largeness. Doonan’s (metaphorically) massive shoes will be filled by another dapper visionary: Dennis Freedman, former creative director of W. Word on the street—or at least in WWD—is that Barneys CEO Mark Lee “wants to completely overhaul the store’s image, from the merchandise and visual displays to the windows.”
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    Stephanie Murg

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