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" One of my intentions with 'Rookie' is for the girls reading it to know that they are already cool enough and smart enough and pretty enough. "

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" Interviewing Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo and John Galliano in Paris, both for 'Pop' magazine, were huge for me, not just in learning about fashion and writing but about how little desire I had to be a critic/reporter/journalist/commentator so much as a kind of travel diarist. "

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