The Drake

Gram Slam — Those Meddling Kids!

N FALL OF 2012, Patagonia hosted a media gathering at their headquarters in Ventura, Calif. This was back when print magazines like and still existed, so it was a larger crowd than it would be today. The focus was on editors getting a look at their 2013 line, but the last

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