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I’m laughing,” says Emma Jarman, one half of local label Commas, seated in the brand’s Sydney studio, recalling a memory from its beginnings. “Because, to give you a picture, we were in Florence and we had Bergdorf Goodman coming in and Mr. Porter coming in – all of these stores – and we genuinely had no idea what we were doing. They were asking, ‘And how much is this?’ And we’d say, ‘We’ll get back to you about that.’” Richard Jarman, partner in life and work with Emma and Commas’s creative director, nods in agreement. “We didn’t have a line sheet; we didn’t know our numbers. We really didn’t have our heads around anything.”
They were at Pitti Uomo in 2017, the twice-yearly showcase of men’s fashion, only a year after
