Gap’s new premium denim: cool or not?

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Gap has introduced a line of premium jeans, called 1969, as the retailer tries to reverse a prolonged sales slump.

But there’s a fundamental problem with the strategy, consumer columnist David Lazarus says, involving Gap’s serious lack of coolness. With that in mind, Lazarus has a few ideas on how Gap should be promoting the new line.