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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 ...