When Saheem Ali, director of this summer’s Shakespeare in the Park production “Happy Wives,” thought about which costume designer he wanted to hire for the show, he immediately knew it had to be Dede Ayite. The two have been friends for years and have collaborated on “Twelfth Night” for the Public Mobile Unit, “Fires in …

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