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The Los Angeles–based fashion designer Raquel Allegra has just unveiled an installation at the Paris fashion and interiors boutique Merci that incorporates a phalanx of hand-dyed garments and a 20-foot-high hand-crocheted, hand-dyed tapestry comprised of nearly 1,000 yards of cotton gauze.
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