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POINTS OF PRIDE: In honor of Pride Month, the Finnish design house Marimekko has called upon three LGBTQ visual artists in Latest York, Bangkok and Helsinki, Finland, to create work for a Marimekko store window. Brooklyn, Latest York-based art director and illustrator Shanée Benjamin, Bangkok-based illustrator Juli Baker and Summer and the Helsinki-based visual and textile artist Anna-Karoliina Vainio were recruited for commissions. Baker, who earned a fashion degree at Chulalongkorn University, began her artist profession under the nom de plume Juli Baker and Summer in 2015. As some extent of reference to assist get the three artists’ ideas circulating, they got a quote by Marimekko founder Armi Ratia, who wrote in her diary on the age of 14, “There is barely one strength —...