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· Travel to Maine's L.L. Bean boot factory [GQ]
· Jane Birkin's daughter dies after balcony fall in Paris [TFS]
· Same-day delivery coming to shopping mall near you [WSJ]
· Gap the first brand to use Instagram's new DM feature [Bustle]
· Star Trek's George Takei is an amazing Amazon reviewer [Kottke]
· Inside the colorful, weird and abusive world of Lisa Frank [Jezebel]
· The Sartorialist on what he looks for in a woman (to photograph) [Paper]
· Marc Jacobs pres Robert Duffy buying a pricy West Village townhouse [Curbed NY]