Photography by Fahnon Bennett In the summer of 1995, on one of Manhattan’s notorious humid days, my longtime business partner, George W. Slowik, Jr. and I met our next-door neighbor at the Chelsea office building where our newly formed magazine company, PressCorps, had established its headquarters. The only other tenant on the floor of that just-this-side-of-rundown edifice was up-and-coming fashion designer, John Bartlett. When I popped my head in to introduce myself, Bartlett, handsome, funny, was as charming as advertised and our friendship was off to a promising start. Not two years later, Bartlett took the fashion world by storm…
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