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Mar 2021
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Eileen Fisher on the Allure of Timeless ...

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Fashion designer Eileen Fisher talks about collaboration as a preferred modus operandi, solving the fashion industry’s pollution problem, and the remarkable effects of staying true to one’s vision, and to oneself. 
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