Rachelle Hruska MacPherson launched Lingua Franca, her quippy cashmere sweater brand, two months before Donald Trump won in 2016. She didn’t mean to get political.
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When Rachelle Hruska MacPherson founded her New York clothing company a decade ago, she didn’t imagine celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart would be donning her sweaters.
MacPherson also didn’t expect her brand Lingua Franca, which produces hand-stitched cashmere sweaters made by women, to become political. That happened,
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