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Only in Los Angeles could a chat over coffee start with comparing crystals and turn into plans for a 30-piece fashion collaboration. But when the journalist-turned-designer JJ Martin described her struggles with denim for her Milan-based brand La DoubleJ to Lela Becker, co-founder of the LA-founded denim brand Mother, things moved quickly.
The pair already knew each other through…

