I can still see myself standing at the copy machine in the labyrinthian offices of Liberty of London, peeking into the dark, cramped room that housed the fabric designers. Their desks were piled high with fabric swatches, design printouts and color samples. As I copied pages from shiny new copies of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar that I had combed for the tiny words “available at Liberty of London,” I soaked in the color and prints of the future fabrics whose design was still in its infancy.
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