The couple soon had jobs from important fashion magazines such as "Vogue" and "Harper's Bazaar".

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"Coats are very strong, " agreed Avril Graham, executive fashion and beauty editor at Harper's Bazaar.

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"That launched Jil, " Liz Tilberis, then-editor of Harper's Bazaar, said at the time.

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