Coach and Elena Velez find common cause in style.
It is not exactly a secret that the American dream is fraying. The cowboys are not necessarily the good guys; the founding fathers had their Achilles’ heel; the melting pot mythology is starting to come apart at the seams.
That can give someone nightmares, or it can give them ideas — about where we are and what comes next. When it comes to fashion, which has often trafficked in either escapism or the tropes of the national origin story (pioneer dressing! denim! the wild, wild West), it seems as if it is starting to give designers material. And to make their material
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