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In a world of mass-produced fashion and fakes, Janice Breen Burns celebrates our artisans.

ONE of the brightest blips on fashion's horizon two years ago was a young pair of designers with a penchant for handmade pompoms, special dyed fabrics and spidery crochet effects. Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales of Romance was Born were wittily creative designers, fond of the odd collaboration — including with Archibald Prize-winning artist Del Kathryn Barton — and aesthetically braced against the logo-loving banality of mainstream fashion......

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