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1 month ago | 
danathomas.substack.com | Dana Thomas
Plus: LVMH’s former security consultant found guilty of using public resources to benefit the luxury group. For the last few years now, the fashion and business press have been following play-by-play the moves Bernard Arnault has made to set up his luxury group, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, for when he retires.
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Aug 28, 2023 | 
danathomas.substack.com | Dana Thomas
Dear Friend,The Green Dream podcast is on sabbatical until September. So I thought I’d spotlight a fab episode from the first season that you might have missed, and share the latest climate news. The episode I’ve chosen is our second one, with Oscar-winning Australian documentary director Eva Orner, about her film Burning, an unflinching look at the Black Summer, the epic Australian bushfires of 2019 and 2020.
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Aug 5, 2023 | 
danathomas.substack.com | Dana Thomas
It’s the dog days of August, and the fashion and culture worlds have pretty much closed shop. So I thought I’d take this time to talk about someone I knew and liked very much: Jane Birkin, the British-born French actress and singer, who died at home in Paris last month at the age of 76. I first became aware of Jane back when I was an 18-year-old Elite model in Paris in the early 1980s.
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Jul 29, 2023 | 
danathomas.substack.com | Dana Thomas
Dear Friend,Happy Summer!The Green Dream podcast is on summer sabbatical. But climate change never takes a break, as we have witnessed with heat waves across the United States and Europe and wildfires in Canada and Greece.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
danathomas.substack.com | Dana Thomas
The job of luxury fashion designer—excuse me, “creative director”—has become just that: a job. And short-term one at that. How short? WWD recently reported that “half the creative directors at roughly 40 houses have been in their positions for five years or less.”Contracts are now usually for three—and maybe only two—years.
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Jul 12, 2023 | 
danathomas.substack.com | Dana Thomas
Bonjour!Welcome to The Style Files, a new newsletter about arts, culture, and fashion. Or The Fun Stuff, as I used to say at Newsweek. You’ll find fab features on something you want to know about—a bit like what I used to write for Newsweek when I was its European Cultural Correspondent in Paris, and before that, for The Washington Post Style section. You’ll find a mix of news, analysis, and criticism. And scoops. Always scoops.
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Jul 9, 2023 | 
danathomas.substack.com | Dana Thomas
Dear Friend,Camille Charrière is eco-fashion's chicest influencer. The sustainability editor for British Elle, and a major presence on social media, Camille shares sharp, insightful advice and observations on sustainable living. Anglo-French by birth, she grew up in Paris, where her parents are intellectuals and academics. She earned her law degree in Paris, and moved to London to work for a hedge fund.
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Jul 4, 2023 | 
danathomas.substack.com | Dana Thomas
The Green Dream with Dana Thomas is a weekly magazine about how to "green-up" your life. A New York Times bestselling author, British Vogue's European Sustainability Editor, and leading voice in the climate movement, Thomas welcomes experts, creators, and changemakers from politics to fashion for dynamic conversations on all things sustainable.
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Jun 18, 2023 | 
danathomas.substack.com | Dana Thomas
The Green Dream with Dana Thomas is a weekly magazine about how to "green-up" your life. A New York Times bestselling author, British Vogue's European Sustainability Editor, and leading voice in the climate movement, Thomas welcomes experts, creators, and changemakers from politics to fashion for dynamic conversations on all things sustainable.
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Jun 18, 2023 | 
danathomas.substack.com | Dana Thomas
Dear Friend,Sutton Stracke is one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and if you follow the show, or are a regular reader of Page Six of The New York Post, you'll know that it isn't always a bed of roses. Sutton also has The Sutton Concept, a boutique in West Hollywood and online where she sells eco-responsible fashion and homewares. I first met Sutton years ago in Paris, when she was in town for the couture shows.