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Valdez: The Gypset Accessory Brand with a Conscience
A graduate of Istituto Marangoni, trained under Zac Posen and Carlos Campos, Gabriela Goldbaum could have gone anywhere. She went back to Ecuador. What she built there, with 500 craftswomen and organic toquilla straw harvested by hand in Manabi province, is one of the most quietly radical things in contemporary accessories. The hat ends up at Colette. The subway gives her the ideas. The earthquake rebuilds the community.
