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Minding The Gap.(Gap Inc.'s new head of design Patrick Robinson)

Vogue

| May 01, 2008 | Mower, Sarah | COPYRIGHT 2008 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Photographed by Norman Jean Roy.

With designer Patrick Robinson at its helm, America's most iconic megafashion brand has the highest hopes of becoming something to believe in again. Sarah Mower reports.

When Patrick Robinson, an almost impossibly young-looking 41-year-old black American with a dimpled grin and an open, loose-limbed manner, was drafted into Gap last May, he knew he was facing the fashion equivalent of a national emergency. "People would yell at me on planes," he says, laughing. "I'd be sitting next to someone, and as soon as I said, 'Oh, I'm the head of design for Gap,' there'd be this rampage. This anger thing. And I knew what ...

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