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Byline: Florence Kane
Most of the women I know wear trousers," says Andrew Harmon. "They're always looking for the perfect pair." It was these pants-possessed friends who first commissioned Harmon to alter his menswear pieces-a floral jacquard shirt or an impeccably tailored jacket-and then, when that was not enough,
began to not-so-gently pressure him to create equally sharp suiting for the fairer sex.
He wasn't completely sold on the idea, however. "I had only hinted at it," Harmon says, laughing, "in fall 2003, when I included a woman in one of my presentations." So he was taken seriously aback during fall Fashion Week when a trade
paper murmured that the 28-year-old New Jersey native was, indeed, launching a sister line. When all of Seventh Avenue has read this in the gossips, what ...