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Fashioning empathy: What would the uncertainty of living with a rare skin disorder appear to be through the lens of fashion?  Pharma giant Boehringer Ingelheim tasked students from The Fashion Institute of Technology’s DTech innovation lab to reply the query with their addition to The Unwearable Collection, a line of conceptual garments made in collaboration with Dutch artist Bart Hess in 2022 to boost awareness for generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP).  The brand new design, titled “Trapped by Uncertainty,” was unveiled Tuesday evening at a personal ceremony inside FIT’s Katie Murphy Ampitheatre and takes its inspiration from firsthand accounts of those experiencing the disease. “Trapped by Uncertainty” “Flares are episodic, however the disease never goes away,” said Claudia Beqaj, executive director of dermatology, sales...