Other designers Mayer favors include Carolina Herrera, Nina Ricci and Jonathan Saunders.

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The pencil skirt offers an ideal new canvas for the photorealist digital prints that burst onto the scene a few years ago from labels like Alexander McQueen, Jonathan Saunders and Versace, and proceeded to incite print-mania across the industry.

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Among the 84 signatories were such notables as Naomi Klein, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jonathan Lethem, George Saunders, Zadie Smith and Sam Lipsyte.

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