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Loose Threads
Well here’s a NYFW win: Women made up half of the designers listed on the CFDA's official fashion week calendar this season, reports The Business of Fashion.
Metropolitan Museum of Art trustees "are still really pissed" at Anna Wintour over the John Galliano fiasco, per Page Six.
Before AI destroys humanity, you would think that it could at least help us do the simple stuff like shop and style our outfits. Enter the AI shopping tool Daydream, which is like ChatGPT for shopping recs. I had a good time playing around with it, and it gave me some fantastic sneaker options when I asked it for "outfit ideas for watching my son's fall baseball games."
Vogue's October issue has two covers so far, featuring Mikey Madison lying on a horse and Michael B. Jordan lying on some bushes.
Kim Kardashian won a single euro, the amount she'd asked for, in the Paris trial over the armed robbery she survived in 2016. Eight people were found guilty.
Liz Goldwyn is selling some of her amazing vintage collection to raise money for three non-profits on the island of Kaua’i helping the community rebuild and stay fed after the devastation of Hurricane Lowell.
Ahead, today’s big story…
Retail Confessions: Neiman Marcus
How close is too close for a personal shopper to get to their clients?
"I have dressed former clients for their funerals because it was part of their last wishes," said a personal shopper at Neiman Marcus, who's been in this line of work for decades. After doing interviews for years for “Retail Confessions,” in which luxury retail workers talk about what selling to the world’s wealthiest fashion buyers is really like, I wanted to hear about how a veteran balances personal with professional in a line of work that’s both relationship driven and deeply personal. While this person has spent Thanksgiving with clients, they've also seen people in their position get burned by not recognizing the necessary line between friendship and work.
"Something happens, like the associate makes some kind of a faux pas…
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