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Hillary Clintons very name is synonymous with the pantsuit . Her love of the two-piece has, in fact, been so documented over the years that its inspired everything from think pieces and fashion editorials to memes and Twitter handles.

And while shes worn styles made by designers from Ann Taylor Loft to Giorgio Armani, Clinton's latest favorite is the creation of two 31-year-olds, Sali Christeson and Eleanor Turner, who are at the helm of a label youve probably never heard of: Argent .

Created with professional women in mind, Argents clothes are all about making function look stylish. For instance, the brand's Crossover Blazer ($325) includes an earphone channel that lets women thread their buds or a Bluetooth wire through their blazer sleeve. The brands Staple Trouser ($228) feature a hidden credit card back pocket. And one of Argents coolest takes on the pantsuit is reversiblesolid gray on the inside and plaid on the reverse, meaning women get two options from the $378 blazer and $248 trousers.

And Clinton really does seem to love the brand's stuff, which is only available online and at Washington, D.C., San Francisco and New York City pop-up stores. They make them all in New York, and theyre not unreasonably priced," the former Secretary of State told New York magazine earlier this year."I just want to support more of these young-women-owned businesses, and I think its so sweet that they are making pantsuits!

The story of how two millennial founders started a business dedicated to dressing professional women (and professional women icons) has its roots in Silicon Valley.

PHOTO: Courtesy of Argent

Christeson, a M.B.A. who got her start in banking, was working at Cisco leading a team dedicated to the technology giants newest cloud initiative, and struggling to find clothes on the day-to-day.

I'd always been annoyed by shopping for workwear, and [looking] around was a luxury I just didnt have time for, she said. It was 2014 and a lot of studies were coming out that a womans appearance can significantly impact her career trajectory.

From there, Christeson found herself in the midst of opportunity within the roughly $200 billion U.S. apparel market.

The landscape of the workplace has changed, Christeson said. Its a more casual environment than it once was. And brands havent been evolving with the modern working day [or] with what the modern working woman looks like.

PHOTO: Courtesy of Argent.

The combination of research and a gut feeling led Christeson to realize she was onto something. That was the catalyst to quit my job, she said.

Armed with the idea to modernize workwear (goodbye Working Girl power suits , hello professional clothes women might actually get excited to wear), Christeson hooked up with Turner who'd worked for such brands as Tory Burch and J.Crew, and who also saw the unique opportunity before themespecially after doing some fieldwork.

It was horrifying to see that salespeople weren't asking you what industry you are in, they were just pulling out the same gray suit with a boot-cut theyve been selling for 30 years, Turner said.

At the core of the line, which officially launched in 2016, was the clothing item that has come to symbolize womens ascent in the workforce: the pantsuit. It felt like a reflection of the world we're living in, Turner said. Pantsuit nation, female power, boldnessits a strong statement.

PHOTO: Sali Christeson, left. Eleanor Turner, right. Courtesy of Argent.

So, what does it feel like when the patron saint of pantsuits herself, Hillary Rodham Clinton, wears your clothes, which she did while accepting an award at a Planned Parenthood gala in April?

To see her in our blazer ? Sali and I basically fell out of chairs, Turner said.

We had the opportunity to meet her at an event at San Francisco, Christeson said. We shared what we are doing with her, and we just felt like she got it and was excited. And from there she and Huma [Abedin, a longtime Clinton aide] started wearing the pieces. Its just a symbolic honor at its simplest.

PHOTO: Huma Abedin wearing Argent. Getty.

With Clinton already a brand evangelist, whats next for Argent? We want to keep evolving with women and staying plugged into their needs, Christeson said. All types of women from all different backgroundswomen in politics, the nonprofit world, financeare wearing our clothes, and our mission is resonating. We want our women to be taking on the world like a small army, whether they are presenting at a conference or fighting for a raise.

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Meet the Two Millennials Behind Hillary Clinton's Favorite New Pantsuit - Glamour

Appearing on Fox News personality Sean Hannitys program Thursday, Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to President Trump, pushed back against those expressing a belief that newly minted White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci had crossed a line with his comments to the New Yorker about White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and, especially, top Trump strategist Steve Bannon. Scaramucci, Conway said, is at times given to colorful language and is passionate about the president to the extent that he might at times allow that trait to get the best of him.

Then came the pivot, a redirectional technique of which Conway has been called a master:

She was referring, of course, to Hillary Clinton, who infamously said last September that half of then-candidate Donald Trumps supporters not, as Conway alleged, half of the country could be placed into what I call the basket of deplorables for the sins of racism, sexism, homophobia and Islamophobia you name it.

At the time, Trump tweeted that he thought the remarks would cost Clinton at the Polls.

Key Words: Clinton puts half of Trump supporters into basket of deplorables

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Kellyanne Conway suggests Hillary Clinton's language is more vulgar than Anthony Scaramucci's - MarketWatch

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Hillary Clinton, of I Shouldve Won the White House! fame, apparently isnt content to deliver 10- and 20-second talking points from her national podium about the dang Russians who worked with President Donald Trump to give him that presidential title.

Shes gotta write a book about it, too.

Thats right. Clintons new book will reportedly double down on the Russian election interference angle as well as one that rings in former FBI chief James Comey as a heavy factor in her loss, too.

She just wants to get the story out, her friends privately say.

She really believes thats why she lost, and she wants to explain why in no uncertain terms, one of her political supporters told The Hill. She wants the whole story out there from her own perspective. I think a lot of people are going to be really surprised by how much she reveals.

Well, probably not not if the book focuses, as hinted, on the Russia-Trump election collusion message, or on the Comeys a Traitor rhetoric, either. America already knows these lines. And theyre boring.

Its too bad. Clintons missing an opportunity to write something actually interesting.

The Clintons have been in politics for a long, very long time. And theyve proven time and again a willingness to wheel and deal, to use political office for personal gain and to lie about it when it benefits. That means their friend list is long so too, their enemy list. If she would only dish, her book would probably be a bombshell.

But thats not the Hillary way. Shed rather throw a pity party.

On that, even Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer says its time to bury the hatchet.

When you lose to somebody who has 40 percent popularity, you dont blame other things Comey, Russia you blame yourself, Schumer said to The Washington Post, just recently.

Clintons failure is she cant.

And on that score, her book carries a larger message.

If Clintons memoirs are heavy on the same sort of finger-pointing weve already been treated to since November, itll be the mark of political death for her. Its bad enough Clintons rhetoric shows she cant move on from her loss. Putting it in writing, for all the world to see, and in a form thats as long as a book, will prove once and for all her resiliency to bounce back from adversity has been tapped.

Shell be remembered not only for her failed political career, but also for her book-length whine about why she was screwed.

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Hillary Clinton's upcoming book: Make way for the pity party ... - Washington Times

Photo The former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, at a fund-raiser in June. What Happened, her new memoir, promises to be a candid account of what the 2016 election was like for her. Credit Patrick Semansky/Associated Press

Hillary Rodham Clinton hasnt shied away from the public stage in the months since her defeat in the 2016 election. Shes been giving speeches, sitting on panels, going to the theater, and taking selfies with supporters, and this fall, shell be publishing a book that promises to be her most personal memoir yet, according to her publisher, Simon & Schuster.

The book, titled What Happened, will offer an intimate view of what it was like for Mrs. Clinton to run as the first female presidential candidate from a major party in United States history, in an often vicious and turbulent campaign.

Ms. Clinton will explore the mistakes she made, what it was like to run against Donald J. Trump, the difficulties she has faced as a woman in politics, the role that Russian hacking played in the election, and how she recovered from the humiliating loss, according to a description of the book released by Simon & Schuster.

Most of all, though, the book will give insight into what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most dramatic campaigns in modern American history.

In the past, for reasons I try to explain, Ive often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net, Mrs. Clinton writes in the books introduction. Now Im letting my guard down.

What Happened is due out on Sept. 12.

A version of this article appears in print on July 28, 2017, on Page C2 of the New York edition with the headline: A Title and New Details From Clinton Memoir.

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New Details From Hillary Clinton's Memoir Revealed - New York Times

Two-time presidential loser Hillary Clinton should stay in her woods. But instead of accepting her latest election defeat gracefully, shes writing another book due out in September.

Doesnt she realize, hardly anyone read her last one?

No matter. In her soon-to-be-released tome shes putting the finishing touches on this summer, Clinton is reportedly doubling down on the false narrative that Russia and former FBI Director James Comey stole the 2016 election from her.

This is a Hard Choice between sad and delusional to borrow from the title of her last book.

Zero evidence has been presented to date by any U.S. intelligence agencies or polling facilities that Russia hacked or manipulated ballots. In fact, in many polling stations throughout the nation, offline voting is impossible to hack. And as Clinton herself has been quick to add, she beat Trump in the popular vote. So scratch that non-starter.

Russia didnt design our electoral system our Founding Fathers did. Putin didnt tell Clinton not to campaign in critical swing states or advise her to alienate half the nation by calling hardworking, patriotic voters a basket of deplorables.

Clinton did that all by herself.

Add to it the fact that Clinton wasnt trusted by the majority of voters on both sides of the aisle. Countless polls taken throughout the campaign revealed even Democrats trusted socialist Bernie Sanders more than the Democratic front-runner who was embroiled in one scandal after another. From the shady money coming into her family foundation, to the mishandling of classified information in a private email server jeopardizing Americas national security, to the eyebrow-raising Russia-uranium deal she orchestrated while secretary of state, and other pay-to-play activities that were at minimum slimy.

Then theres Comey. Instead of blaming him for her self-inflicted election loss, she should be thanking the former FBI director for not swapping her trademark yellow pantsuit for an orange jumpsuit.

Clearly between deleting tens of thousands of emails, wiping servers and smashing devices with a hammer there was plenty of evidence discovered by the FBIs investigation to bring charges. Attacking the notoriously thin-skinned Comey who will get hauled in to testify against her if the email investigation is reopened is a colossally dumb move.

Add it up and Clinton should quit pushing false narratives in books and beyond, quit the anti-Trump Resistance and thank her lucky stars shes not in the slammer.

Voters were smart to steer clear of Clinton. She continues to demonstrate bad judgement. She should continue, in her Westchester woods, to take a hike.

Adriana Cohen is host of The Adriana Cohen Show heard Wednesdays at noon on Boston Herald Radio. Follow her on Twitter @AdrianaCohen16.

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Adriana Cohen: Hillary Clinton persists with woe is me - Boston Herald