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"   Photo: Sundance Channel  Last night&amp;#039;s episode of All on the Line featured Beth Buccini and Sarah Easley, the owners of Soho&amp;#039;s Kirna Zabete. Joe Zee invited the duo to check out Gemma Kahng&amp;#039;s new and improved collection, hoping they&amp;#039;d find a place for Gemma&amp;#039;s clothes among their meticulously curated racks. KP: Hi Guys! When I first arrived in NY 10 years ago, Kirna Zabete was the first job I applied for. Did you know that? KZ: We had no idea! Why didn&amp;#039;t we hire you?! KP: I&amp;#039;ve been holding that grudge for a decade now! But I&amp;#039;ve always been so impressed with how you guys have built such a unique store. KZ: Our mission for the store has been to edit our favorite pieces from the best designers of today and tomorrow in a very personal way. We always ask, &amp;quot;Who is wearing this and where is she going?&amp;quot; KP: When did you guys meet, Joe? JZ: I met Beth when I first started out as an assistant at Allure and Beth was just starting out as well. There&amp;#039;s no better training than being an assistant, especially to a fashion editor. It really puts any other bootcamp to shame, but I&amp;#039;m so grateful for all that training. And then when I met Sarah years later and heard the girls were starting Kirna Zabete, it was just another testament to their amazingly good taste! KP: Beth and Sarah, how many years have you guys been friends? KZ: Too many! We&amp;#039;ve laughed and cried a thousand times. Nothing really happens in life unless we&amp;#039;ve downloaded it to each other. We met in the college dorm at University of Virginia and honestly it doesn&amp;#039;t surprise either of us that we&amp;#039;re still best friends and business partners.   Photo: Sundance Channel  KP: So what led you to this week&amp;#039;s episode of All on the Line? KZ: We&amp;#039;ve actually been approached to participate in quite a few fashion TV programs but have never said yes until this one. With All on the Line, finally we recognized a non-snarky show that&amp;#039;s clever and shows the entertainment of us just doing our regular work. KP: Let&amp;#039;s talk about Gemma Kahng. JZ: I knew Beth was definitely familiar with Gemma Kahng. She was one of those incredible fashion designers from when we first started in the 90&amp;#039;s that everyone talked about. I remember her clothes on the covers of every magazine and even this butt-less lavender jumpsuit that Madonna wore in Vanity Fair. Back then, if Madonna wore it, that was true validation. But it&amp;#039;s 20 years later, and while we love a comeback, we&amp;#039;re not so interested in a has-been. Gemma really needed to WOW! KP: And she did! We were all blown away. KZ: Mainly it was a huge relief to see how talented she still is. We see so, so many designers and there&amp;#039;s quite a range of skill and style out there. Gemma has really risen again. KP: I don&amp;#039;t remember her label from the 90&amp;#039;s, but I did do some research for the show and learned that her first collection landed in 30 stores\u2014that&amp;#039;s pretty major! It&amp;#039;s shocking that she slipped off the radar the way that she did, but I really have no doubt she&amp;#039;ll be back. That lace coatdress!? The upside down jackets? KZ: We love the couture finishing in her work! We can imagine it hanging with our best designers: Alaia, Lanvin, Celine...The feminine details combined with her sharp tailoring is incredible. JZ: On a personal level, this was probably my favorite episode of this season because of my history with Gemma. She was the only designer I had any interaction with prior to the series and I knew exactly what she was capable of. I also knew what she meant when she said she felt abandoned by the fashion industry. How could I not help? In the end, I was IN LOVE with that final capsule collection. All the outerwear (especially that last lace and ruffle coatdress) was amazing. Clothes that special deserve a special home! KP: And they found one! At Kirna Zabete. Click here to find out more about All on the Line! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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