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Byline: Eve Macsweeney
Stop by Marni in downtown Manhattan, a discreet, narrow storefront on Mercer Street, and a sociological tableau unfolds that says a lot about where this once-small, little-known, then better-known and now really rather fantastically successful label is positioned at the moment. You are likely to encounter a slightly offbeat celebrity, the kind who isn't too grand to try on clothes in a shop without a VIP area-Rachel Griffiths, perhaps, who was recently spotted checking herself out in a loose, flesh-colored dress and a pair of faintly nerdy high heels. Then there might be a Westchester housewife or a Korean tourist piling up leathers and ...