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London's Central St. Martins is on the move—to shiny new headquarters at King's Cross. The old building where the fashion department was housed in on Charing Cross Road is pretty grim and in a shoddy state of disrepair, but, still, some students don't want to let it go. "You can’t help but think of the people that came here before," one says to the NY Times "I find myself going: I wonder if Lee McQueen sat here?" [NY Times]
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