Linda Loppa: Fashion Educator Extraordinaire

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Linda Loppa, who turned 60 this spring, is one of the most influential and respected voices in contemporary fashion – and has been for over four decades. And yet, when we first speak over the phone one summer's morning, she politely insists that she “had absolutely no attraction” to the medium as a young woman. “Both my father and my grandfather were tailors, and I saw them suffering at the mercy of their sewing machines,“ she says. “I just wasn’t interested. I wanted to…