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Journalist and author. The business of culture. @WSJ @VogueBusiness @NYer @TownandCountry Yes, I've profiled both Bill Gates and Ye, and written a book about Steve Wynn. (@BinkleyOnStyle at Twitter)
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“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

#Boise #Idaho showing up for #NoKings

Meanwhile ….

One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup

The photos coming from Trump’s birthday parade are just incredible. No one showed up.

This is the quietest parade ever

it's like a feud between two drakes, not a kendrick in sight

Elon’s emissaries

I’m going on BBC shortly to talk about why Jonathan Anderson moving to design Dior is a smart move for the brand. Gonna add that I wish we’d get to see him do his own pure thing at his own brand, tho.

Ouch Burberry. Adjusted operating profit down 94% for 2024. Analysts at trying to find the bright side, which is revenues falling only 6% in the fourth (most important) quarter vs 12% for the year.

Ewww. www.theverge.com/news/661911/...

How do they turn the smoke white? Or black?

White smoke! I’m not even Catholic and I’m all tuned in.

Coach’s 3Q 13% revenue growth is impressive, but Tapestry’s performance was dragged by Kate Spade and Stuart Weitzman, for 7% growth overall. Now stop reporting details in “constant currency”. If you sell globally, you have to manage currency fluctuations, not pretend they didn’t happen.

Someone should have told me that a large percentage of my time after having kids would be spent trying to figure out how to use leftovers.

Any news outlet that won’t name journalists and outlets that enterprised and broke stories and then link to the original are scared, useless, petty pieces of shit. Our policy is to always credit even unethical, scared outlets that twist stories into pretzels not to credit us (even for suing #msleg).

The Prada Group Q1 sales growth numbers are wild in the context of a luxury slowdown: APAC (ex Japan) 9.6% Japan 18% Europe 14.3% Americas 9.9% Middle East 26.5% In fact, I’d say it isn’t so much a slowdown as a shift in market share. Prada and Hermes are taking share from Kering and LVMH.

TELSEY begins tracking price increases over the past week. Some highlights: * Abercrombie jeans: up 33% * Amazon Echo: up 38.5% * Target / Barbie doll: up 42.9%

Despite Trump's promised cuts, U.S. spent about $220 billion more in first 100 days than last year www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...

* FBI DIRECTOR, IN POST TO X LATER DELETED, SAYS FBI ARRESTED A MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN JUDGE ON OBSTRUCTION CHARGES @reuters.com

First they came for the immigrants Then they came for the students Then they came for the judges Wait, the fucking judges!?

I hope Eileen Fisher is excited to be next door to Madison Avenue’s first cannibis dispensary, which will open on Saturday with a live DJ and a party bus outside for consumption.

The only appropriate response for academics having necessary classes cancelled...

This mishegas with Sewell Chan fired at the Columbia Journalism Review sounds like a clash between a newspaper-trained editor and colleagues more sedate magazines. News people get pumped on adrenaline when they have a scoop. It usually ends with high-fives, not complaints to HR.

Gotta local local news ❤️

My deepest condolences to Elaine Wynn’s family. She was a formidable art collector and philanthropist, as well as casino magnate, and a tenacious matriarch who looked after the generations. I will miss our infrequent conversations. WHAT a life she lived. www.wsj.com/business/ela...

An analyst report out this morning from Jefferies estimates that luxury brands will need to raise prices by 10% in the US due to Trump’s tariffs. Non-luxury brands by more. They’re estimating a big hit to gross margins.

why is *every* newspaper/programme running with the headline "tariffs are paused" when they haven't been. What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.

The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

1. White House, Monday, on a 90-day pause: “Fake news.” 2. Bessent, today: a 90-day pause was discussed on Sunday. “This was his strategy all along.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Anyone know if Trump rolled back his cancellation of the de minimis exemption. To tariffs?

Wow Chicago! #HandsOff #FiftyFiftyOne (🎥 Marco Foster)

My fave sign driving by protests today on Hollywood Blvd was: “THIS SEQUEL SUCKS” Gotta be a comedy writer. I was too slow to get a pic.

Fox removed the stock market ticker from their broadcasts.

It’s now worth a flight to Paris for that spree at Hermes and MiuMiu, thanks to the new US tariffs.

CORY BOOKER

Fired? Chelsea Manning was sentenced to THIRTY FIVE YEARS in prison

I’m not making this up. My community groupchat moderator had to step in when a debate about MILKWEED got nasty yesterday.