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In 2005, he launched the Kill City brand, his edgy contemporary men and women's line. Bernstein opened retail stores between the 1980s and early 1990s, on
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wild ideas including his first success with selling leggings with prints of skulls and daggers. He began the alongside Linda Judy-Pugh in his garage making screen prints.
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