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Byline: Mark Holgate
Early in December, while New York is still deep in a post-_Thanksgiving daze, the J.Crew design team is feverishly thinking about the future. It is their big day to unveil their vision of fall 2006 to J.Crew's Mr. Big, Millard "Mickey" Drexler. "Jenna, Jenna, where are you?" hollers Drexler. Out of the melee of publicists, buyers, marketing executives, and one guy whose job it is to capture all this on a camcorder steps Jenna Lyons, senior vice president of women's design, who at six feet is way taller than just about everyone else in the room. She quickly goes through the collection's key pieces-ruffled striped shirts, skinny gilt-button ...