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Byline: Sally Singer
Who would a fashion designer be? I thought I knew something about the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune that blameless young creative types regularly suffer; but it was not until I became a judge for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund that I realized how vast and choppy is the particular sea of troubles this country's premier fashion-design talents must navigate. Personal debt, poverty, production delays, myriad letdowns, customs snarls, even good old-fashioned weather (don't mention rain to Doo-Ri Chung, whose spring 2005 collection fell on the morning New York city was swamped by the remains of Hurricane Frances). Remember: all these ...