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In terms of wearables, though, most of his energy is currently going into the sweater project he started with Opening Ceremony. He’d like to do another series with the store, but for now he’s channeling his new ideas into the pleated sweaters he’s making at Philadelphia’s Fabric Workshop. When he eventually shows them, it will be with a sculpture that echos the pleats, “so there’s a conversation happening between them,” he says. “That’s my next goal; I want to try making furniture and sweaters that relate to my sculptures but are separate.”