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BEHIND THE BRAND

HEN a young Michael Cohen spent the summer working at his family’s passementerie showroom in New York back in the nineties, he wasn’t sure the world of tassels and trims was for him. ‘I just didn’t understand why people were so fanatical about trims. I remember thinking, “I’m not going to work in this business”,’ recalls Michael. Now the president of the company and the third generation of the family to run the business, which designs and sells exquisite trimmings, braids, cords, borders, tassels and more, his passion for the brand couldn’t be more evident. ‘I

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