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The Return of the Most Controversial Tight Dress of the 1990s

Summary by El Pais
In 1981, Karl Lagerfeld would forever change the fate of a young hairdresser and miller. It was the fashion ‘kaiser’ who suggested to Hervé Peugnet (Bapaume, France, 1957), an avid esthete formed in sculpture and art history by the school of Fine Arts in Paris, that he adopt a much more sonorous and easy to pronounce surname among Americans. A resource that would reinforce his jump in the fashion industry, and that the German facilitated by hiri…

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The Return of the Most Controversial Tight Dress of the 1990s

In 1981, Karl Lagerfeld would forever change the fate of a young hairdresser and miller. It was the fashion ‘kaiser’ who suggested to Hervé Peugnet (Bapaume, France, 1957), an avid esthete formed in sculpture and art history by the school of Fine Arts in Paris, that he adopt a much more sonorous and easy to pronounce surname among Americans. A resource that would reinforce his jump in the fashion industry, and that the German facilitated by hiri…

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