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What Could’ve Been: A History of Kanye’s Defunct Pastelle Line

Frazier Tharpe
ByFrazier Tharpe

Senior Editor/Pop Culture Geek/Jaÿ-Z Stan/The Summer Man.

Oct 01, 2011

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