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Milan Fashion Week
Meanwhile, Milan Fashion Week was in full swing with a few notable debuts.
Sabato de Sarno’s debut women’s collection was on display, after a last minute move indoors due to the rainy weather. (Men’s will follow in January.) It was quite the change from the Alessandro Michele-era maximalism, with a more subdued, minimalist, Old-Celine collection presented. Kering’s stock popped 4%, with investors liking Gucci’s evolution towards old-money brands like Hermes, Chanel and Louis Vuitton. Boring sells, when it comes to the ultra-wealthy clients Gucci wants to go after.
Prada launched some beautiful organza dresses that Raquel is raving about.
And Tom Ford launched it’s first collection post Estée Lauder-acquisition, with Tom Ford himself’s long time deputy Peter Hawkings now in charge of design.
More Milan
Raquel went to Milan Fashion Week this Fall, and got to attend some shows, do some comp shopping, and yes, eat a lot of pasta. The pasta came in handy considering she was averaging 20,000 steps per day!
Everyone has their Milan list, but here is what she really liked:
We will endeavor to put up a podcast on this trip once Raquel is over her jet lag! :)
Being 13
The New York Times has a great interactive piece on what life is like for young teenager girls, complete with actual text messages, social media DMs and the barrage of other notifications they receive daily:
Three girls, one year. This is what it’s like to be 13 today, in a world that can’t stop talking about the dire state of your future.
I wanted to put a face to the alarming headlines about teens andsocial media — in particular, girls. And to understand one tension: What happens when girls’ self-confidence, which has been shown to drop right around this age, intersects with the thing that seems to be obviously contributing to their struggle?
It’s all very Eighth Grade, and makes us think how lucky we were to grow up without the pressures of social media.
Indeed, Air Mail has a piece on a string of suicides at Harvard-Westlake, the most prestigious high school in Los Angeles.
A vanity school this is not. Harvard-Westlake is known for its rigorous academic and athletics programs, which have resulted in a noticeable contingent of its students going to top colleges. In the past five years, out of 1,413 graduates, 89 have gone to New York University, 68 to the University of Chicago, 46 to Harvard, 42 to the University of Pennsylvania, 31 to Yale, 28 to Stanford and Columbia each, 27 to Brown, and 19 to Princeton.
In response, the school drafted a “Mental Heath & Well Plan” but it’s unclear if that will really change the underlying culture.
Links.
Jessica Chastain & Jeremy Strong dancing in their hotel room after the Gucci Ancora show.
Tinder just rolled out its $500/month VIP-tier plan.
Prince William helping NYC’s Oyster Project.
In the Archives with Sofia Coppola.
The Low Plate Lottery Edition.
The cult of cool Japanese lifestyle magazines.
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Chris & Raquel