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Friday, May 30, 2008

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EARLIER this month, people promenading along the super-fashionable Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village were surprised to come upon a decidedly low-rent window display announcing an army-navy surplus store within. Wasn't that a Marc Jacobs store just last week? Could Bleecker be going downscale as fast as it had gone up?



As it turned out, the window was the dryly funny brainchild of Robert Duffy, the president of Marc Jacobs. Mr. Duffy had found a trove of vintage military coats in Copenhagen and decided to sell them in the store — for a mere $59 each. And if that sounds like a unlikely fashion statement from the man who in the 1990s had men coughing up $600 for thermal long johns in cashmere, well, talk to Mr. Duffy.


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