Perhaps more than any other individual in the whirling sphere of fashion, Margareta van den Bosch catapulted high-low dressing.

As H&M’s first design director, she led the Swedish chain’s collaborations with leading designers starting with Karl Lagerfeld in 2004. But even in retirement, when many would be basking in their accomplishments, van den Bosch prefers to share the spotlight with the many co-workers that helped to accelerate design at H&M. The just-out book “Team Maggan: H&M’s First Design Director and Coworkers on Fashion, People and Possibilities” takes a wide view of that with personal testimonies that show the diversity of roles, functions and processes at play.

During an interview at the Soho Grand Hotel in New York Friday, van den Bosch, who is known as “Maggan,” spoke of

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