the shop where Jeff Bezos buys his capes

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“You wear a cape to make a statement,” says Marcos Seseña, the director of Capas Seseña and the fourth generation of his family to run the boutique and atelier in Madrid. Founded in 1901 by his great-grandfather, Santos Seseña, the company is generally considered to be the world’s most famous producer of what Seseña describes as “the most wonderfully dramatic of all…