Benjamin Millepied on the arts in the Trump era. My interview here: wwd.com/eye/people/ben…

Mimosa Spencer Thanks for the piece about the G7 Fashion Pact in WWD. wwd.com/fashion-news/f…

Parisiens 5 minutes before deadline for bars and restaurants to close 75018

“It is clear we are only at the beginning of the epidemic wave,” added the French Prime Minister. bit.ly/3btpgrA

Paris men’s and haute couture fashion weeks have been canceled. bit.ly/2yh0Mnj

Chanel has pledged to maintain the salary for its 8,500 employees in France. bit.ly/2UK5gdn

Only weeks into lockdowns, strains are building on the infrastructure for deliveries, making e-commerce a more complicated lifeline for retailers and consumers alike. google.fr/amp/s/wwd.com/…

Short thread on France and covid-19. It increasingly looks as if France will not be following as awful a trajectory as Italy and Spain. This is showing up in a series of tentatively encouraging data points over the past 4-6 days 1/6

RT BIub: Le chiffre est tombé. Pour H&M , les ventes du groupe sont en baisse de 46% en mars. L’enseigne a dû fermer 3 788 magasins sur 5 065 depuis le 31 mars. lnkd.in/dwqehq8 Dans WWD ($) par Mimosa Spencer #fashion #fastfashion #H&… pic.x.com/UBaOQNh9QT

Thousands furloughed; Capri doesn’t see stores opening before June google.fr/amp/s/wwd.com/…

Louis Vuitton CEO Michael Burke coins a new term: ‘mask-neutral’ wwd.com/fashion-news/d…

'Boulangeries Are Helping Us Make It Through': In France, Bakeries Remain Essential : NPR npr.org/2020/04/09/829…

My tango with #coronavirus. Suffice it to say that I feel lucky to be alive... AFP News Agency correspondent.afp.com/love-and-fear-…

Netflix Show ‘Narcos’ To Become a Fashion Brand wwd.com/fashion-news/f… via WWD

BREAKING NEWS: The Académie Française, the French language police, have just announced that while Covid19 *could* be a masculine word because of “le virus” that it’s preferable to be feminine because of “la maladie.” academie-francaise.fr/le-covid-19-ou…

Shops in Paris just opened. Spoke with a fellow eager to buy a Rolex but also on the lookout for discounts on sneakers. Some folks bought belts, and the woman who splashed out on a Louis Vuitton bag was headed to Zara next. wwd.com/business-news/…

What makes you hopeful? Danielle Williams from 11 Honoré ORANGE CULTURE FASHION (N)wuné ANDREA IYAMAH and more on harnessing this historic moment in today’s WWD

.Alexandre Vauthier's Couture Fall 2020 satiated an audience hungry for fashion. bit.ly/3fl4LzT

M.I.A. performs at Off-White