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Patti Smith performs live on stage with The Patti Smith Group in Central Park as part of The Dr Pepper Music Festival on August 4, 1978. Photo by Richard E. Aaron.

They met each other through their boyfriends, New York, the summer of '68. Judy Linn was a photographer. Patti Smith a poet.

Back in college, Smith became a muse for Frank Stefanko after she caught his eye in a co-op in South Jersey by "mosey[ing] in like the bad guy walking into a saloon in an old Western movie," as he recalls.

Celebrating the musician's signature androgyny from the seventies to the present.

Her new memoir, M Train, just hit bookstores—and as we dive in, let’s also take notes from Smith’s singular sartorial expression.