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Last August, Samuel Bail and Abel Samet, the 26-year-old former bankers behind leather accessories brand Troubadour Goods, sat in a roadside cafe in the Tuscan countryside, cold-calling manufacturers.
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In Japan, where Uniqlo has blanketed the countryside with more than 800 stores, some of the brand's luster has been worn away by strip-mall locations and humdrum atmospheres.
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While the designer's early collections for his eponymous menswear brand were more techno than tulips (a reaction against his childhood in the Belgian countryside with a mother who was "obsessed with flowers"), the designer has more recently learned to embrace his pastoral roots, first at the helm of Jil Sander and now at Dior.
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