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Before it’s in fashion . . . it’s on Hamish. During last year’s February Fashion Week, Vogue’s European editor-at-large Hamish Bowles was repeatedly spotted wearing Nanook-of-the-North headgear from Tajikistan (part of his beat?). Then, this year, his look hit the runway. Our prediction: The minute Arctic airs strike again, editors everywhere will follow hirsute and get big fur hats of their own.

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