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"Based on the public comments and to late-1970s, Clowes said. "Fashion designers started picking up on that." Like Soltau, Clowes said the camouflage designs favored by fashion designers are different from the hunting camouflages that are popular in casual clothing and among hunters  Louis Vuitton mini lin. Part of the camouflage trend is also due to the country being on a war footing since the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. "Right after 9-11 it seemed to me there was a real spike in the use of camouflage, especially in high fashion," Clowes said. The situation is similar around the globe in places such as Afghanistan, Egypt and Syria, where war and armed conflicts have dominated the news in recent times. "Fashion is a reflection of what's happening in the world around us," said Sandi Keiser, chairperson of the fashion department at Mount Mary University in Milwaukee. "Fashion doesn't happen in a vacuum." of editors . . .

 everyone else just follows this small group.” Even more perplexing: The world of fashion magazines is one of the few industries dominated by women. How they continue to employ a man they’d likely never leave alone with a daughter or friend is a feat of ­rationalization. It’s also hard to reconcile the complicit endorsement of celebrities whose public images stand in opposition to all Richardson represents: Madonna, who ­recently told Louis Vuitton sobeHarper’s Bazaar that she’d been raped when she first came to New York, was shot by Richardson for that very issue. Lena Dunham, self-styled feminist of her generation, was shot in her underwear by Richardson for V magazine; Richardson also dates Dunham’s friend Audrey Gelman, the press secretary for comptroller Scott Stringer. (Dunham and Gelman would not comment for this article.) Gloria Steinem posed with Richardson at an event last year, but through a spokesperson said she had no idea who he was at the time.