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Take Ivy Author Interviews

By Danica Lo

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The folks over at The Trad tracked down the photographer and three authors of iconic 1965 style book Take Ivy to ask them a few burning questions—like, whose idea was the book, anyway? "No one and everyone," says co-author Paul Hasegawa. "The three of us were involved in monthly editorial meetings - brain storms. The magazine featured Ivy/Trad fashion and we were fed up shooting the pictures at Japanese campuses. Someone asked the question, 'Why not go to Mecca?'" [The Trad]

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