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Manhattan Institute Issues Commentary to Bloomberg Opinion: Influencer Economy Ate New York City's Fashion Girls
March 10, 2026
NEW YORK, March 10 -- The Manhattan Institute issued the following excerpts of a commentary on March 9, 2026, by Allison Schrager, senior fellow and contributing editor of City Journal, to Bloomberg Opinion:

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The Influencer Economy Ate New York City's Fashion Girls

If you lived in New York City in the 1990s and 2000s, as I did, there was no better person to be than a fashion girl. Slim, well-dressed and chain-smoking, she worked at an elite fashio . . .

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